The first detailed study of a major but neglected work by Thoreau.
Until very recently, only a handful of Thoreau specialists knew of
the existence of 'The Dispersion of Seeds', an ecological treatise
written during the last years of Thoreau's life, which has been
reconstructed and edited, and was published for the first time in
1993. Thoreau's Late Career and the Dispersion of Seeds, the first
full-length study of this important late work by Thoreau, analyzes
literary features of 'The Dispersion of Seeds' that make it an
accomplished work of the imagination, and applies interdisciplinary
scholarship in order to relate Thoreau's prescient ecology to
scientific issues of his day and ours. Thus it demonstrates that in
his late career Thoreauwas working as scientist and poet
simultaneously. Berger further explores how Thoreau managed the
philosophical and rhetorical tensions involved in bridging the
supposed gap between science and poetry, and how, in his later
career, he embraced the empirical method of scientific discovery
while challenging the reductive assumptions of scientific
materialism. In these specific ways Berger's study advances new
understandings of Thoreau's purposes and accomplishments during his
post-Walden career. Michael Berger, Ph.D., is Associate Professor
of English and Communications at The Christ College of Nursing and
Health Sciences in Cincinnati. He is on the Board of Directors
ofThe Thoreau Society.
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