TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thorson,Robert M.
TI  - Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science 
SN  - 9780674088184
AV  - PS3048 .T55 2014eb
U1  - 818/.303 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674728400
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674728400
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674728400/original
ER  -