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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Science & Literature)
Laura Dassow Walls
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Description for Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Science & Literature)
Paperback. Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in American literature. It shows how Thoreau's experience reveals the interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day. Series: Science & literature series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture.
Walls reveals that the scientific texts of Thoreau’s day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden to the Journal to the late natural history essays. Here we see how, just when literature and science were splitting into the “two cultures” we know now, Thoreau attempted to heal the growing ... Read more
Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place of science in American culture.
Walls reveals that the scientific texts of Thoreau’s day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden to the Journal to the late natural history essays. Here we see how, just when literature and science were splitting into the “two cultures” we know now, Thoreau attempted to heal the growing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Science & literature series
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299147440
SKU
V9780299147440
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About Laura Dassow Walls
Laura Dassow Walls is assistant professor of English at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Science & Literature)
“An excellent book, well-written, even eloquent. Walls is clearly the first scholar to read Thoreau thoroughly in the context both of the science of his own day and of the theory and philosophy of science in our day, in such a way as profoundly to call into question all previous work in this area and to open up questions about ... Read more