Reimagining Thoreau

by Robert Milder

Book Overview

Reimagining Thoreau synthesizes the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's literary career. The aims of the book are, first, to situate Thoreau's aims and achievements as a writer within the context of his troubled relationship to the microcosm of antebellum Concord; second, to reinterpret Walden as a temporally layered text in light of the successive drafts of the book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521461499
• ISBN13: 9780521461498
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"