Rediscovering the Maine woods : Thoreau's legacy in an unsettled land /
"The Maine Woods, vast and largely unsettled, are often described as unchanged since Henry David Thoreau's 1847 journey across the backcountry, in spite of the realities of Indian dispossession and the visible signs of logging, settlement, tourism, and real estate development. In the summe...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Amherst ; Boston :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2019]
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2248346 |
Sommario:
- Introduction : rediscovering the Maine Woods / John J. Kucich
- Crossing Moosehead Lake / Chris Sockalexis
- Undercurrents / Stan Tag
- The Maine Woods rhomboid / Robert M. Thorson
- "Some star's surface" : Thoreau in the Maine Woods / Laura Dassow Walls
- Sublime matter : materiality and language in Thoreau's "Ktaadn" / Melissa Sexton
- Eating moose : Thoreau, regional cuisine, and national identity / Kathryn Dolan
- Pilgrimages and working forests : envisioning the commons in the Maine Woods / James S. Finley
- Multiple use and its discontents : popular conservation writing in the Maine Woods a century after Thoreau / Dale Potts
- Thoreau's Maine Woods and the problem of wildness / Richard W. Judd
- Conclusion : carrying place : Penobscot language, land, and memory / James Francis.