Our Common Dwelling
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Our Common Dwelling

Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature

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Our Common Dwelling

Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature

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OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities. Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social authority as an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of American capitalism.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
9781403973535
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Chapter 1 The Commitments of Ecocriticism
  6. Chapter 2 The Nature of Cultural History
  7. Chapter 3 Class Struggle in New England
  8. Chapter 4 Transcendentalism as a Social Movement
  9. Chapter 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Democracy, and the Mob
  10. Chapter 6 Margaret Fuller, Rock River, and the Condition of America
  11. Chapter 7 William Wordsworth in New England and the Discipline of Nature
  12. Chapter 8 William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and the Poetry of Nature
  13. Chapter 9 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson, and Transcendentalism
  14. Chapter 10 Transcendentalist Reformers, Scholars, and Nature
  15. Chapter 11 Brook Farm and Association
  16. Chapter 12 Capitalism and the Moral Geography of Walden
  17. Chapter 13 Walden, Association, and Organic Idealism
  18. Chapter 14 Nature, Politics, and Thoreau’s Materialism
  19. Chapter 15 Wild Fruits, Capitalism, and Community
  20. Chapter 16 Ecocriticism and the Uses of Nature Writing
  21. Chapter 17 Marxism, Nature, and the Discipline of History
  22. Notes
  23. Index