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David M. Robinson - Natural Life: Thoreau´s Worldly Transcendentalism - 9780801443138 - V9780801443138
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Natural Life: Thoreau´s Worldly Transcendentalism

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Description for Natural Life: Thoreau´s Worldly Transcendentalism Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.

"An essential step in Thoreau's recovery of a 'natural life' is to reawaken and expand his awareness of the present moment, not only in the sense of knowing more of the world around him, but of entering into it fully. Admitting in Walden that 'I did not read books the first summer; I hoed beans,' he also confesses to moments in which he neglected both of these conflicting duties.... In periods of reverie, Thoreau gave himself over to his senses, finding a fulfillment in his own attentive presence at the pond and the surrounding hills."—from Natural Life

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Robinson emphasizes Thoreau's development of the credo of living a "natural life," a phrase drawn from his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The depiction of the contemplative life close to nature in Walden exemplifies this credo. But it is also fulfilled through Thoreau's later life as a saunterer in the fields and forests around Concord, devoted to his studies of the natural world and dedicated to a life of principle.

Natural Life takes note of and encourages growing interest in the later phase of Thoreau's career and his engagement with science and natural history. Robinson looks closely at Walden and the essays and natural history projects that followed it, such as "Walking" and "Wild Apples," and the remarkable and little-observed writing on night and moonlight found in Thoreau's journal.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
511g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801443138
SKU
V9780801443138
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About David M. Robinson
David M. Robinson is Oregon Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University. He is the author of Emerson and the Conduct of Life and editor of The Spiritual Emerson, among many other books.

Reviews for Natural Life: Thoreau´s Worldly Transcendentalism
David M. Robinson's Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism demonstrates that Thoreau's works are sufficiently rich that they invite continual new readings of the shifting and evolving nature of nature as he viewed it, understood it, and used its contours to mold his life.... Robinson's book may tell us more about the inside of Thoreau's head than about the world around ... Read more

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