Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal - Softcover

Cameron, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226092283 ISBN 13: 9780226092287

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

At his death, Henry Thoreau left the majority of his writing unpublished. The bulk of this material is a journal that he kept for twenty-four years. Sharon Cameron's major claim is that this private work (the Journal) was Thoreau's primary work, taking precedence over the books that he published in his lifetime. Her controversial thesis views Thoreau's Journal as a composition that confounds the distinction between public and private—the basis on which our conventional treatment of discourse depends.

About this title

Synopsis:

At his death, Thoreau left the majority of his writings unpublished. The bulk of this material is a journal which he kept for twenty-four years. Though the Journal is central to studies of Thoreau's canon, criticism of it until now has been peripheral because no vocabulary has been developed to interrogate it directly. Critics have usually assumed

About the Author:

Sharon Cameron is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre and The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Hawthorne and Melville.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0226092283
• ISBN 13: 9780226092287
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186