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...Ellen Weinauer Duke University Press 2007 Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau . By Peter J. Bellis. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. vii, 221 pp. $ 39.95. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class...

...Jason Stacy © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 American Transcendentalism: A History . By Philip F. Gura. New York: Hill and Wang. 2007. xv, 385 pp. Cloth; $27.50; paper, $15.00. Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman...

...Patrick Thomas Morgan; Priscilla Wald © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Patrick Preface: Thomas Thoreau Symposium Morgan and Priscilla Wald...

...Benjamin Reiss This essay explores Henry David Thoreau's Walden in relation to the history of sleep, considered as a medical, biological, social, and spiritual phenomenon. Attention to Thoreau's striving for “awakening” and “alertness” has veiled his running rhetoric of dormancy: scenes and tropes...

...David Faflik American author Henry David Thoreau's transcendental writings are aesthetically “shallow.” To read Thoreau's signature works is to locate interpretive meaning elsewhere than the resonant “depths” with which we long have associated the transcendental text. These are the implications...

... Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature.By Andrew McMurry. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xiii, 269 pp. $39.95. Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Move- ment. By Daniel J. Philippon. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2004. xv, 373 pp. $39.95...

...Ben Bascom Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau . By Branka Arsić . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 455 pp. Cloth, $53.00 . When I Came to Die: Process and Prophecy in Thoreau’s Vision of Dying . By Audrey Raden . Boston : Univ. of Massachusetts...

...Audrey Raden The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America . By Michael C. Cohen Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2015 . 277 pp. Cloth, $55.00 ; e-book available. Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman...

.... Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. viii, 223 pp. $80.00. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord . By Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 233 pp. $29.95. Book Reviews Godly Letters: The Literature...

... Thoreau’s Study of Nature . By Robert Kuhn McGregor. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1997. xiv, 247 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $16.95. ‘‘What is it asks Robert McGregor in this lucid and accessible study...

...Dana Phillips Duke University Press 2006 Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present . By John Gatta. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 291 pp. Paper, $24.95. Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism...

...Lance Newman Duke University Press 2003 Lance Thoreau’s Natural Community and Newman Utopian Socialism 6903 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:3 / sheet 31 of 209 They have bought a farm, in order to make agriculture...

... Eversley, Baruch College, City University of New York Thoreau’s Ecstatic Witness. By Alan D. Hodder. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2001. xix, 346 pp. $35.00. Thomas Merton...

...Michelle C. Neely Near the beginning of Walden , Henry David Thoreau tells his readers that his “experiment in living” is dedicated to learning “what are the gross necessaries of life... the grossest groceries,” a choice of metaphor that might remind us just how much of his personal and political...

...Alan Ackerman Abstract Catharine E. Beecher’s 1841 A Treatise on Domestic Economy laid the groundwork for the American environmental canon, including Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau and Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson. In conversation with other nineteenth-century American writers...

... of the same logic under another name. Extended readings of Henry David Thoreau (“Walking”), Edgar Allan Poe (“The Island of the Fay,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Colloquy of Monos and Una”) and recent posthumanist discourse illuminate these points. Unlike his transcendentalist contemporaries and many current...

... Criticism,” 177–84. ` Emerson, D. Berton. “‘It’s Good to Be Shifty’: The Local Democracies of Old Southwestern Humor,” 273–301. Faflik, David. “Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic: Reading Surface Meaning in Thoreau,” 61–91. Fawaz, Ramzi. Review: Lavender, Race in American Science Fiction, 199–202...

... against the extension of slave territory often appears to take the form of anti-expansionism. Like Thoreau and the abolitionists of his day, Emerson did not object to expansion itself but to the addition of slave territory. A striking example of the way his rhetoric overlaps that of anti-expansionism...

... David Thoreau are the crux in establishing the real relevance of the Beat Generation, and more specifically William Burroughs, to ecocriticism.” The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind . By Chad Weidner. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2016. ix, 200 pp. Paper, $35.00...

... of this Pequot Indian, presenting his life and times in an accessible format, from his conversion to Methodism to his role in the Mashpee Revolt. Picturing Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture. By Mark W. Sullivan. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2015. xxi, 217 pp. Cloth...