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The Economist - Henry Thoreau and Enterprise (Hardcover): Leonard N. Neufeldt

The Economist - Henry Thoreau and Enterprise (Hardcover)

Leonard N. Neufeldt

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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 behavior that occurred in antebellum New England and America; these transformations at the level of language; and Thoreau's awareness of these transformations. Neufeldt situates Thoreau in significant economic conditions of his time, investigating how these conditions contained him even as he sought to contain them. Using Walden and "Life without Principle," as main examples, the book considers the questions of why and how Thoreau, who was very much shaped by his culture and its conventions, also contested the limitations of those conventions and used his condition to transform some of them. Thoreau's identity as a literary artist who regarded his writing as his cultural vocation is at the center of the discussion.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 1989
First published: May 1989
Authors: Leonard N. Neufeldt (Professor of American Literature)
Dimensions: 224 x 146 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505789-8
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-19-505789-9
Barcode: 9780195057898

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