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Pilgrimages and Working Forests: Envisioning the Commons in "The Maine Woods"
- Author(s):
- James S. Finley (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Ecocriticism, LLC 19th-Century American
- Subject(s):
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, Environmentalism, Environmental literature, Commons
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Henry David Thoreau, Environmental humanities
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/8efk-ts02
- Abstract:
- This chapter examines the tendency of readers of Thoreau's 1864 book "The Maine Woods" to read the landscape through which Thoreau travels as pristine wilderness. I argue, by contrast, that Thoreau presented a social landscape, a "working-forest" avant-la-lettre.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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