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Reimagining Thoreau synthesises the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's career from his graduation from Harvard in 1837 to his death in 1862.

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"...his analysis is often compelling....Valuable as psychosocial literary history for the intricate record it traces, for the discontinuities it exposes in Thoreau's self-constructions, and especially for the temporal layering it describes in Walden..." ESQ

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Part I. 1837–49: 1. 'A false position in society'; 2. 'Under the eyelids of time': A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Part II. 1845–54: 3. Disconstructing Walden; 4. Walden and the rhetoric of ascent; 5. Interregnum (1849–52); 6. Defying gravity; Part III. 1854–62: 7. 'A point of interest somewhere between' (1854–7); 8. 'Annexing new territories' (1857–62); Notes; Index.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521068369, 978-0521068369
      ISBN10: 0521068363
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reimagining Thoreau synthesises the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's career from his graduation from Harvard in 1837 to his death in 1862.

      Trade Review
      "...his analysis is often compelling....Valuable as psychosocial literary history for the intricate record it traces, for the discontinuities it exposes in Thoreau's self-constructions, and especially for the temporal layering it describes in Walden..." ESQ

      Table of Contents
      Part I. 1837–49: 1. 'A false position in society'; 2. 'Under the eyelids of time': A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Part II. 1845–54: 3. Disconstructing Walden; 4. Walden and the rhetoric of ascent; 5. Interregnum (1849–52); 6. Defying gravity; Part III. 1854–62: 7. 'A point of interest somewhere between' (1854–7); 8. 'Annexing new territories' (1857–62); Notes; Index.

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