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Seeing New Worlds - Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-century Natural Science (Paperback, New)
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Seeing New Worlds - Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-century Natural Science (Paperback, New)
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Thoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he
also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book,
the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist,
will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the place
of science in American culture. Walls reveals that the scientific
texts of Thoreau's day deeply influenced his best work, from Walden
to the Journal to the late natural history essays. Here we see how,
just when literature and science were splitting into the "two
cultures" we know now, Thoreau attempted to heal the growing rift.
Walls shows how his commitment to Alexander von Humboldt's
scientific approach resulted in not only his "marriage" of poetry
and science but also his distinctively patterned nature studies. In
the first critical study of his "The Dispersion of Seeds" since its
publication in 1993, she exposes evidence that Thoreau was using
Darwinian modes of reasoning years before the appearance of Origin
of Species. This book offers a powerful argument against the
critical tradition that opposes a dry, mechanistic science to a
warm, "organic" Romanticism. Instead, Thoreau's experience reveals
the complex interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic,
law-seeking science of its day. Drawing on recent work in the
theory and philosophy of science as well as literary history and
theory, Seeing New Worlds bridges today's "two cultures" in hopes
of stimulating a fuller consideration of representations of nature.
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