Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue.

Thomas, R. Hinton; Sattelmeyer, Robert

doi:10.2307/2926841

American Literature

1989

DOI: 10.2307/2926841

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Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue.

R. Hinton Thomas¹,

Robert Sattelmeyer²

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Cultivating Wilderness: Environmentalism and Legacies of Early Christian Asceticism

Adler

2006

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Environmentalist writers and their critics agree that Western environmental problems, projects and movements have a marked religious dimension. In an often cited but now widely qualified paper, Lynn White located the roots of our ecological ‘crisis’ in a Judeo-Christian orientation to nature (White 1969). Some contemporary environmentalists call for a new “religion of nature” (Crosby 2002; Willers 1999) or, on the model of modernist negative-theologies, proclaim the death of Nature (Merchant 1980; McKibben 1989); others offer new interpretations of scripture and doctrine as guides for action (Bratton 1993; Hessel and Ruether 2000; McGrath 2002). Political opponents of environmentalist politics also focus on its religious dimensions, though with the aim of discrediting it as unscientific or, among Christians, as pagan (Rubin 1994; Huber 1999; Bailey 2002).

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Cultivating Wilderness: Environmentalism and Legacies of Early Christian Asceticism

Adler

2006

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Unlikely Kindred Spirits: A New Vision of Landscape in the Works of Henry David Thoreau and Asher B. Durand

Peck

2005

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The American Art of Memory

Corrigan

2021

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This article provides a genealogy of the architectural figuration of human cognition from the ancient world to Renaissance Europe and, finally, to the American Renaissance where it came to possess a striking cultural and literary potency. The first section pursues the two-fold task of elucidating this archetypal trope for consciousness, both its ancient moorings and its eventual transmission into Europe. The second section shows that three of the most prominent writers of the American Renaissance—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne—engaged this mystically inspired architectonic symbolism, employing far older techno-cultural suppositions about interior space. I thereby offer an account of the intellectual and spiritual heritage upon which Romantic writers in the United States drew to articulate cognitive interiority. These Romantics did more than value creativity in contradistinction to Enlightenment rationalism; they were acknowledging themselves as recipients of the ancient belief in cosmogenesis as self-transformation.

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Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue.

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Cultivating Wilderness: Environmentalism and Legacies of Early Christian Asceticism

Cultivating Wilderness: Environmentalism and Legacies of Early Christian Asceticism

Unlikely Kindred Spirits: A New Vision of Landscape in the Works of Henry David Thoreau and Asher B. Durand

The American Art of Memory

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