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  Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (Paperback) By (author) Robert D. Richardson, By (author) Barry Moser

  

  

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  Short Description for Henry ThoreauThis biography of Henry Thoreau offers insight into his social activism, his interest in fine arts, William Gilpin and John Ruskin's influence on his nature writing, and his involvement in, and influence by, the Agassiz-Darwin debate over "The Origin of Species.".
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  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Published: 01 March 1988
  • Format: Paperback 464 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Literary | Literary Essays | Literary Studies: General
  • ISBN 13: 9780520063464 ISBN 10: 0520063465
  • Sales rank: 355,182

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• The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landcscape. In this new biography, based on a rexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full ninteeth-century context.