A historical guide to Henry David Thoreau

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Title:

A historical guide to Henry David Thoreau

Author:

Cain, William E., 1952-

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]

Physical Description:

viii, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Series:

Historical guides to American authors

Historical guides to American authors.

Language:

English

Contents:

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 : a brief biography / William E. Cain -- Thoreau, manhood, and race : quiet desperation versus representative isolation / Dana D. Nelson -- Domesticity on Walden Pond / Cecelia Tichi -- Romancing the real : Thoreau's technology of inscription / Laura Dassow Walls -- The theory, practice, and influence of Thoreau's Civil disobedience / Lawrence A. Rosenwald -- "That terrible Thoreau" : Concord and its hermit / Robert A. Gross.

Reading Level:

1420 Lexile.

Personal Subject:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862-Criticism and interpretation-Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862-Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Added Author:

Cain, William E., 1952-

ISBN:

9780195138627