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Civilizing Thoreau - Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works (Hardcover)
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Civilizing Thoreau - Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works (Hardcover)
Series: Mind and American Literature
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Proposes an interdisciplinary solution to the "Thoreau problem"
through the connection between his ecological study of nature and
his intense interest in the emerging social sciences. Recent
book-length studies of Thoreau have focused either on his place in
the history of the natural sciences or have applied political
principles to his works. None, however, has fully addressed what
ecocritic Rebecca Solnit calls "the Thoreau problem," the
compartmentalizing of Thoreau's mind into either that of a hermit
of nature or that of a champion of social reform. This book
proposes an interdisciplinary solution to this problem through the
connection between Thoreau's ecological study of nature and his
intense interest in the emerging social sciences, especially the
history of civilization and ethnology. The book first establishes
Thoreau's "human ecology," the relation between the natural
sciences and the social sciences in his thinking, exploring how his
reading in contemporary books about the history of humanity and
racial science shaped his thinking and connecting these emerging
anthropological texts to his late nature writings. It then
discusses these connections in his major works, including Walden
and his "reform papers" such as "Civil Disobedience," the travel
narrative A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine
Woods, and Cape Cod. The concluding chapter focuses on Thoreau's
attitude toward Manifest Destiny, arguing, against conventional
views, that considering both his life and his writing, especially
the essay "Walking," we must conclude that he both accepted and
endorsed Manifest Destiny as an inevitable result of cultural
succession. Richard J. Schneider is Professor Emeritus from
Wartburg College. He has authored a monograph and many articles as
well as edited three collections on Thoreau.
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