A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Concord River |
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Concord River |
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Concord River (Mass.) |
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Concord River |
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Concord River (Mass.) |
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Author | : H. Daniel Peck |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1994-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300061048 |
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination. "Morning work," a phrase from Walden, is the name Peck gives to this larger project. by it he means the work done by memory and perception as they act to shape Thoreau's emerging vision of a harmonious universe. Peck argues that the changing balance of memory and perception in the three works defines the unique literary character of each of them. He offers a major reevaluation of Walden, which he sees neither as the epitome of Thoreau's career (the traditional view) nor as an anomaly (the recent, revisionary view). Rather, he sees Walden as a pivotal work, reflecting the issues of loss and remembrance that earlier had found prominent expression in A Week and prefiguring the late Journal's vision of natural order. Focusing on the two-million-word Journal, Peck provides the first critical analysis that defines the essential forces and the imaginative coherence in its vast discursiveness. The consideration of memory and perception in Thoreau also leads peck to the issue of the writer's modernity, and he explores the ways in which Thoreau anticipates twentieth-century thought, especially in the works of such great objectivist philosophers as William James and Alfred North Whitehead.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1897 |
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2023-03-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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In 1839, Thoreau and his brother took a small boat upriver and back. Some years later, while in his cabin at Walden Pond, he gathered his notes from that journey and other writings from his journals, and composed this, his first book. Like the rivers it describes, the book meanders through varying territories and climates. He writes of the natural surroundings they encounter and of the history of the region, but also takes long and remarkable detours through topics like friendship, history, a comparison of Christianity and Hinduism, Vedic literature, government and conscience, Thoreau’s philosophy of literature, monuments and graveyards, poetry (in particular Ossian, Chaucer, and certain minor Greek poets), and the satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Thoreau also includes several poems of his own. Thoreau had the first edition of this book published at his own expense, and at first it struggled to find an audience. “I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes,” he remarked at one point, “over 700 of which I wrote myself.”
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780395947999 |
Describes how Blanche Douglas Leathers studied the Mississippi River and passed the test to become a steamboat captain in 1894.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1906 |
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