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Oltean, Roxana. "'Language ... Without Metaphor'." JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 1, no. 2 (2020): 267–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v1i2.123.

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Henry David Thoreau has been celebrated for his observation of the natural world. While noting Thoreau's skills of observation in relation to the natural world and his responsiveness to sensory experience, scholars have, however, tended to privilege sight over sound. Even though Thoreau was recognized by musicians such as Charles Ives and John Cage for having an exceptionally fine ear for the symphonies of nature, sound still remains a neglected aspect of Thoreau's Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. This article is a corrective to this status quo, as it reads Walden as a transmedial project in whi

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Bristow, Tom. "International Regionalism as American-Australian Dialogue: William James and Henry David Thoreau in John Kinsella’s Jam Tree Gully Poems." Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology (ASLEC-ANZ) 2 (April 9, 2013): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.2.10596.

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Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854) is America’s nineteenth century scriptural call to establish the foundations of nationhood. The epic event of America underwritten by English literature, politics and economics, alongside the idea to self-realise anew and afresh is pregnant with Transcendentalist notions of self-reliance: the triumph of principles and latent convictions that constitute enlightenment within the self. In Jam Tree Gully Poems (2011) poet John Kinsella mimics this experimental temperate consciousness to outline degrees of freedom that are yoked to a satiric

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Celarent, Barbara. "Walden; or, Life in the Woods. By Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854. Pp. 357." American Journal of Sociology 115, no. 2 (2009): 649–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/648657.

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Jajtner, Tomáš. "“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it”: The Concept of Economy (of Nature) in Thoreau’s Walden or Life in the Woods." Ostrava Journal of English Philology 13, no. 2 (2022): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/ojoep.2021.13.0011.

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The present article investigates the notion of economy (of nature) in Thoreau’s Walden or Life in the Woods (1854); it introduces the context of coining the concept of economy of nature, presents the challenges of exploring nature in Romantic thought, and finally deals with Thoreau’s concept of “economy” as discussed in the first chapter of his opus magnum. Despite its historical grounding in the Romantic tradition and in the tradition of American Transcendentalism, Thoreau’s idea of “economy” represents a remarkably fresh version of a sustainable lifestyle, combining scientific observation wi

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GROSS, ROBERT A. "The Transnational Turn: Rediscovering American Studies in a Wider World." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 3 (2000): 373–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875851006437.

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Few American writers have been so rooted in a single place as Henry David Thoreau. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, sixteen miles west of Boston, Thoreau spent nearly all his short life, some forty-four years, in the vicinity of his native town – “the most estimable place in all the world” he deemed it – with only brief sojourns beyond New England. Like many of his contemporaries, he did try out the big city, living close to Manhattan in 1843, an aspiring writer, age twenty-six, with hopes of a literary career. But he quickly recoiled from the urban scene. “I don't like the city better, the mor

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ALLEN, THOMAS. "Clockwork Nation: Modern Time, Moral Perfectionism and American Identity in Catharine Beecher and Henry Thoreau." Journal of American Studies 39, no. 1 (2005): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875805009254.

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The economy of time, and our obligation to spend every hour for some useful end, are what few minds properly realize. Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (1854)In his seminal 1967 essay “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” E. P. Thompson codified the theory that modern life, characterized by capitalism and industry, would not be possible without the regulating, organizing, and disci

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Smith, Laura. "Henry David Thoreau, Walden Woods, and an Aesthetics of Garden." Journal of Scottish Thought 9, no. 1 (2017): 124–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.57132/jst.42.

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Liu, Qin. "Animals in Walden." English Language and Literature Studies 7, no. 3 (2017): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v7n3p43.

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Henry David Thoreau is a great American writer of transcendentalism and the pioneer of modern environmentalism. Being an ardent lover of nature, he devoted his entire life to studying the relationship between man and nature, and bequeathed a legacy of works in this field. He believed that nature was the symbol of spirit, and had a far-reaching influence on man and his character, and human beings should live harmoniously with nature for the long sustainable development. In Walden which is his masterpiece He endows the animals with human characteristics. Thereupon, Thoreau often describes the si

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McKelvey, Seth. "“But one kind” of Life." Nineteenth-Century Literature 70, no. 4 (2016): 448–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2016.70.4.448.

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Seth McKelvey, “‘But one kind’ of Life: Thoreau’s Subjective Theory of Value in Walden” (pp. 448–472) Literary scholars generally take for granted Henry David Thoreau’s hostility to market exchange in Walden (1854). I argue, however, that Thoreau anticipates the subjective theory of value and the related concept of diminishing marginal utility, offering glimpses of ideas that would not be formalized in economics until after his death but that should nevertheless align him with a long lineage of free market thinkers. Thoreau does not reject the marketplace as a means to achieve his own best int

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Curtis, K. "The Virtue of Thoreau: Biography, Geography, and History in Walden Woods." Environmental History 15, no. 1 (2010): 31–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emq005.

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