Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-century Natural Science - Science and Literature - Laura Dassow Walls - Books - University of Wisconsin Press - 9780299147440 - October 31, 1995
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-century Natural Science - Science and Literature


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Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in American literature. It shows how Thoreau's experience reveals the interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day.


232 pages, 2 line illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 31, 1995
ISBN13 9780299147440
Publishers University of Wisconsin Press
Pages 232
Dimensions 227 × 152 × 20 mm   ·   440 g

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