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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.
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    Publisher:
    University of Massachusetts Press
    Pub. Date:
    2019
    Book Title:
    Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau\'s Legacy in an Unsettled Land
    Author/Editor:
    John Kucich
    Chapter:
    7
    Page Range:
    141 - 167
    ISBN:
    978-1-62534-417-5
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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