Our Common Dwelling : Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature
by
Lance Newman
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0230602444
ISBN-13
9780230602441
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
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Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 18th, 2008
Print length
255 Pages
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OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. 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.
Lance Newman 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. Our Common Dwelling 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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