a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates
Edición de la obra Thoreau in his own time
| Autor | Sandra Harbert Petrulionis |
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| Editorial | University of Iowa Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2012 |
| Lugar | Iowa City |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 239 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781609380878, 9781609380977 |
| ISBN-10 | 1609380878, 1609380975 |
| OCLC | 753912441 |
| LCCN | 2011035855 |
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| Writers in their own time |
| Número de Cutter | P498t |
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More than any other Transcendentalist of his time, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) embodied the full complement of the movement's ideals and vocations: author, advocate for self-reform, stern critic of society, abolitionist, philosopher, and naturalist. The Thoreau of our time--valorized anarchist, founding environmentalist, and fervid advocate of civil disobedience--did not exist in the nineteenth century. In this rich and appealing collection, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis untangles Thoreau's multiple identities by offering a wide range of nineteenth-century commentary as the opinions of those who knew him evolved over time.