Waldens Shore - Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science

About the author

Robert M. Thorson is Professor of Geology at the University of Connecticut.

Summary

Walden’s Shore explores Thoreau’s understanding of the “living rock” on which life’s complexity depends—not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson’s subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist, whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Thorson
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780674088184
• ISBN: 978-0-674-08818-4
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form