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Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature
Lance Newman
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Description for Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
OurCommonDwelling 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 an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism 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 ... Read more
OurCommonDwelling 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 an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403967794
SKU
V9781403967794
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99-15
About Lance Newman
LANCE NEWMAN is Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, USA, where he teaches courses in early American literature, environmental literature, and creative writing. He is co-editor of Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867, and Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in American and British Romanticism. His scholarly essays have appeared ... Read more
Reviews for Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature
"In this brilliant and urgent book, Newman clears away the cobwebs to reintroduce us to our radical contemporary: Thoreau." - Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine "In a style at once meticulous and dramatic, Lance Newman situates American literary Romanticism in the context of working-class radicalism, political and social reform, and incipient environmentalism. By exhorting readers to ... Read more