Thoreauas Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity

by Shannon L. Mariotti and Paul S. Boyer

Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. In Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal, Shannon L. Mariotti explores Thoreau's nature writings to offer a new way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond. Drawing imaginatively from the twentieth-century German...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299233944
• ISBN13: 9780299233945
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"