Extra-Vagance Consolidated Thoreau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895430 |
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| Authors | Lauriat Lane (corresponding author), Jr Lauriat Lane |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-232 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-021-02-07 |
| OpenAlex | W2137157411 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Henry D. Thoreau. Cape Cod, ed. Joseph Moldenhauer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. 441 pp. Robert Sattelmeyer. Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. xv + 333 pp. Joel Myerson, ed. Critical Essays on Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. ix + 254 pp. This is my fourth review of a group of Thoreau books, the third for this journal. It affords a good chance to consider how we stand toward Thoreau and how we got here. In the "Conclusion" to Walden, Thoreau "fear[ed] chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vacant enough" (324) but promised us, pace Walter Benn Michaels, "there is a solid bottom everywhere" (330).1 More and more, in separate projects and in their cooperative interrelations, the intent and industry of Thoreau studies have been to consolidate the bottom over which Thoreau extra-vagantly saunters. Each of these three books, in different ways, does so
Art history · Classics · History · Philosophy · Thoreau and American Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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