Mindprints: Thoreau's Material Worlds

by Ivan Gaskell

A rediscovery of Thoreau's interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought.

Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, Thoreau accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In some of these objects, particularly Indigenous artifacts, Thoreau perceived the presence of their original makers, and he called such objects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022683607X
• ISBN13: 9780226836072
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages