Dark Thoreau

by Richard Bridgman

Book Overview

Henry David Thoreau has suffered from a largely uncritical admiration of his roles as naturalist, economist, political theorist, and expository writer. The evidence this book presents substantially modifies our understanding of his performance of those roles. It draws heavily on the largely unknown territory of Thoreau's seven thousand pages of journals as well as his poetry, while at the same time subjecting passages from such familiar work as Walden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803261926
• ISBN13: 9780803261921
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.5"