Our common dwelling
Henry Thoreau, transcendentalism, and the class politics of nature
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2005 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
63,750 words, Guess
Page Count
255 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3310360M
- ISBN-101403967792
- OCLC Control Number56686501
- Library of Congress Control Number2004059985
- Goodreads504360
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- LibraryThing1581679
Classifications
- DDC818/.309
- LCCPS3057.P64 N48 2005
Description
"Lance Newman explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and 40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities. Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social authority as the intellectual elite. Our Common Dwelling engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of American capitalism."--Jacket.
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