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By James S. Finley

popular for his contrarianism and solitude, Henry David Thoreau used to be still deeply aware of the area round him. His writings undergo the lines of his wide-ranging interpreting, travels, political pursuits, and social affects. Henry David Thoreau in Context brings jointly major students of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature and tradition and provides unique examine, important synthesis of historic and scholarly resources, and cutting edge readings of Thoreau's texts. throughout thirty-four chapters, this assortment finds a Thoreau deeply thinking about and formed by way of a various diversity of environments, highbrow traditions, social concerns, and modes of medical perform. Essays additionally light up vital posthumous contexts and look at the explicit demanding situations of contextualizing Thoreau this present day. This assortment offers a wealthy realizing of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature, political activism, and environmentalist considering that might be a necessary source for college kids, lecturers, students, and normal readers.

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