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Walden's Shore : Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (440 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674728400
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Walden's ShoreDDC classification:
  • 818/.303
LOC classification:
  • PS3048
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Place of the Book -- 1. Rock Reality -- 2. Landscape of Loss -- 3. Thoreau's Arctic Vision -- 4. After the Deluge -- 5. Meltdown to Beauty -- Interlude -- 6. The Walden System -- II. The Book of the Place -- 7. Sensing Walden -- 8. Writing Walden -- 9. Interpreting Walden -- 10. Mythology -- 11. Simplicity -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.
Summary: Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist, whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Place of the Book -- 1. Rock Reality -- 2. Landscape of Loss -- 3. Thoreau's Arctic Vision -- 4. After the Deluge -- 5. Meltdown to Beauty -- Interlude -- 6. The Walden System -- II. The Book of the Place -- 7. Sensing Walden -- 8. Writing Walden -- 9. Interpreting Walden -- 10. Mythology -- 11. Simplicity -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.

Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist, whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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