Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature by Lance Newman

Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature

Lance Newman

274 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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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. The...

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