The Economist: Henry Thoreau and Enterprise

Oxford University Press, USA | ISSN: 0195057899 | 1989-05-04 | PDF | 232 Pages | 10 Mb

This major study brings to light Thoreau's relation to the complex economic discourse of his time and place. Specifically, it examines the impact of transformations in economic thinking and…

Professor Alan D. Hodder - Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness

Publisher: Yale University Press | 2001-11-01 | ISBN: 0300089597 | PDF | 320 pages | 1.09 MB

When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, friends and admirers remembered him as an eccentric man whose outer life was continuously fed by deeper spiritual currents. But…

Henry David Thoreau "Walden "

PDF | ISBN 1590300882 | Year 1854 | 274 pages | English | 5.2 MB

"Walden" is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations,…

A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau (Historical Guides to American Authors)

Oxford University Press | 2000 | ISBN: 0195138627 | Pages: 304 | PDF | 13.57 MB

As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is in…

Joel Porte, "Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed"

Yale University Press | 2004-07-11 | ISBN: 0300104464 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also…

Lance Newman, "Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature"

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2005-05-13 | ISBN 2005-05-13 | PDF | 280 pages | 1.5 MB

Lance Newman explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and 40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized…

The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant

Publisher: Collins | ISBN: 0061710318 | edition 2009 | PDF | 368 pages | 1.29 mb

Henry David Thoreau is one of those authors that readers think they know, even if they don't. He's the solitary curmudgeon with the…

Thoreau's Garden: Native Plants for the American Landscape

Publisher: Stackpole Books | ISBN: 0811717283 | edition 1996 | PDF | 242 pages | 3,3 mb

Henry David Thoreau went alone to Walden Pond in 1845 and observed the ferns and turtleheads, the sundrops and spatterdocks, and the other beautiful native plants that…

My Friend, My Friend: The Story of Thoreau's Relationship With Emerson

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press | 1999-07-01 | ISBN: 1558491864 | JPG | 23 pages | 1.04 MB

Henry David Thoreau was a twenty-year-old scholarship student at Harvard when he met Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. Emerson, fourteen years Thoreau's senior…

TTC - The Teaching CompanyEmerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)Course No. 2598Taught by Ashton NicholsDickinson CollegePh.D., University of VirginiaWhere did the America we know today?so different in its fundamental views about almost every aspect of life as to be unrecognizable to our countrymen of two centuries ago…