Walden’s Shore : Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science /
Thorson, Robert M.
Walden’s Shore : Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science / Robert M. Thorson. - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only - 1 online resource (440 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I THE PLACE OF THE BOOK -- 1 ROCK REALITY -- 2 LANDSCAPE OF LOSS -- 3 THOREAU’S ARCTIC VISION -- 4 AFTER THE DELUGE -- 5 MELTDOWN TO BEAUTY -- INTERLUDE -- 6 THE WALDEN SYSTEM -- II THE BOOK OF THE PLACE -- 7 SENSING WALDEN -- 8 WRITING WALDEN -- 9 INTERPRETING WALDEN -- 10 MYTHOLOGY -- 11 SIMPLICITY -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674088184 9780674728400
10.4159/9780674728400 doi
Literature and science--History--United States--19th century.
Nature in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
PS3048 / .T55 2014eb
818/.303
Walden’s Shore : Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science / Robert M. Thorson. - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only - 1 online resource (440 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I THE PLACE OF THE BOOK -- 1 ROCK REALITY -- 2 LANDSCAPE OF LOSS -- 3 THOREAU’S ARCTIC VISION -- 4 AFTER THE DELUGE -- 5 MELTDOWN TO BEAUTY -- INTERLUDE -- 6 THE WALDEN SYSTEM -- II THE BOOK OF THE PLACE -- 7 SENSING WALDEN -- 8 WRITING WALDEN -- 9 INTERPRETING WALDEN -- 10 MYTHOLOGY -- 11 SIMPLICITY -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674088184 9780674728400
10.4159/9780674728400 doi
Literature and science--History--United States--19th century.
Nature in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
PS3048 / .T55 2014eb
818/.303