Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments

Henry David Thoreau's thinking about a number of ​issues - including the relationship between humans and other species, just responses to state violence, the threat posed to human freedom by industrial capitalism, and the essential relation between scientific 'facts' and poetic 'truths' - speaks to our historical moment as clearly as it did to the 'restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century' into which he was born. This volume, marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Thoreau's birth, gathers the threads of the contemporary, interdisciplinary conversation around this key figure in literary, political, philosophical, and environmental thought, uniting new essays by scholars who have shaped the field with chapters by emerging scholars investigating previously underexplored aspects of Thoreau's life, writings, and activities. Both a dispatch from the front lines of Thoreau scholarship and a vivid demonstration of Thoreau's relevance for twenty-first-century life and thought, Thoreau at 200 will be of interest for both Thoreau scholars and general readers.

Author: Kristen Case
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/14/2016
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.23w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9781107094291

About the Author
Case, Kristen: - Kristen Case is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maine, Farmington. She is former editor of the Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies and director of Thoreau's Kalendar: An Online Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau. Her recent publications include Little Arias (2015, a book of poems) and American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (2011).Case, Kristen: - Kristen Case is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maine, Farmington. She is former editor of the Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies and director of Thoreau's Kalendar: An Online Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau. Her recent publications include Little Arias (2015​, a book of poems) and American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (2011).Van Anglen, K. P.: - K. P. Van Anglen has recently retired from teaching English and American literature at Boston University. His publications include 'Simplify, Simplify' and Other Quotations from Henry David Thoreau (2012), Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (2008) and The New England Milton (1993). He is editor of the ​Translations volume in the series The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (1986) and has coedited The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age (2017).