Thoreau's Morning Work: Memory and Perception in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the 'Journal', and Walden

H. Daniel Peck

ISBN 10: 0300061048 / ISBN 13: 9780300061048

Published by Yale University Press January 1990, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thoreau's Morning Work: Memory and Perception in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the 'Journal', and Walden
• Publisher: Yale University Press January 1990
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300061048
• ISBN 13: 9780300061048
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lit Crit::Subject

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Synopsis

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal the document whose 24 year composition encompasses their development. In this book The author shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of the imagination.