Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature by Newman, Lance

Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780230602441)

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Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature by Newman, Lance

Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature

$54.99
Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature by Newman, Lance

Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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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 capitalism.

Author: Lance Newman
ISBN-10: 0230602444
ISBN-13: 9780230602441
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2008
Pages: 255
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.60w x 0.67d
By Lance Newman
By Lance Newman
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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 in New England Quarterly, American Literature, Romanticism on the Net, The Concord Saunterer, Nineteenth Century Prose, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.

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