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Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments Edited by Kristen Case and K. P. Van Anglen.

Published by Cambridge University Press; Copyright 2016

Hardcover brand new with dust jacket. 279 pgs.

KEVIN VAN ANGLEN, (Retired) Senior Lecturer at Boston University, has coedited Thoreau at Two-Hundred: Essays and Reassessments with Prof. Kristen Case of the University of Maine, Farmington. Sponsored by the Thoreau Society, Inc. as part of its celebrations of the upcoming 2017 bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth, and supported by grants from the Thoreau Society and Boston University’s Center for the Humanities, this collection of 16 original essays by leading and emerging Thoreau scholars, will be published this October by Cambridge University Press.

Contents:

Introduction Kristen Case and K. P. Van Anglen 

Part I. Thoreauvian Materialism(s):

1. Thoreau's materialism and twenty-first-century environmentalism - Lance Newman

2. A Free Soiler in his own broad sense: Henry David Thoreau and the Free Soil movement - James S. Finley

3. Emancipation from the 'invisible hand': Thoreau's 'economy of living' Susan E. - Gallagher

Part II. The Local Context:

4. Thoreau and Concord's black history - Elise Lemire

5. Red Walden: Thoreau and Native America - Joshua David Bellin

6. 'Beyond all men of his day': T. W. Higginson and Thoreau's legacy in postbellum America - Sandra Harbert Petrulionis

7. 'The nick of time': Thoreau, New England, and America from Early Republic to Civil War - Robert A. Gross

Part III. The Global Context:

8. Culture and conflict: Thoreau, Great Britain, and the Civil War - Len Gougeon

9. Transnational Thoreau: time, space, and relativity - Paul Giles

10. Coleridge, Thoreau, and the transatlantic 'riddle of the world' - Samantha Celeste Harvey and Rochelle L. Johnson

11. Hearing animals: Thoreau between fable and elegy - Wai Chee Dimock

Part IV. Thoreauvian Cosmos:

12. The value of mutual intelligence: science, poetry, and Thoreau's cosmos - Laura Dassow Walls

13. Disaffiliation as engagement - Lawrence Buell

14. Thoreau and Cavell: unauthorized versions - Lawrence Rhu

15. Thoreau and the new American spirituality - Alan D. Hodder

16. The rooster's philosophy, or the gospel according to this moment - Robert D. Richardson.

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