| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 255 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-245) and index. |
| Contents |
The Commitments of Ecocriticism -- Nature of Cultural History -- Class Struggle in New England -- Transcendentalism as a Social Movement -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Democracy, and the Mob -- Margaret Fuller, Rock River, and the Condition of America -- William Wordsworth in New England and the Discipline of Nature -- William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and the Poetry of Nature -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson, and Transcendentalism -- Transcendentalist Reformers, Scholars, and Nature -- Brook Farm and Association -- Capitalism and the Moral Geography of Walden -- Walden, Association, and Organic Idealism -- Nature, Politics, and Thoreau's Materialism -- Wild Fruits, Capitalism, and Community -- Ecocriticism and the Uses of Nature Writing -- Marxism, Nature, and the Discipline of History The Commitments of Ecocriticism -- The Nature of Cultural History -- Class Struggle in New England -- Transcendentalism as a Social Movement -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Democracy, and the Mob -- Margaret Fuller, Rock River, and the Condition of America -- William Wordsworth in New England and the Discipline of Nature -- William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and the Poetry of Nature -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson, and Transcendentalism -- Transcendentalist Reformers, Scholars, and Nature -- Brook Farm and Association -- Capitalism and the Moral Geography of Walden -- Walden, Association, and Organic Idealism -- Nature, Politics, and Thoreau's Materialism -- Wild Fruits, Capitalism, and Community -- Ecocriticism and the Uses of Nature Writing -- Marxism, Nature, and the Discipline of History. |
| Summary |
"Lance Newman 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 the intellectual elite. Our Common Dwelling 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 capitalism."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Political and social views.
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Politics and literature -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Appreciation -- New England.
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Social classes -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Influence.
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New England -- Social conditions.
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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Social classes in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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| ISBN |
1403967792 (alk. paper) |
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9781403967794 (alk. paper) |
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