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Seeing new worlds: Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science

Laura Dassow Walls
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Abbreviations (page xiii)
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • 1. Facts and Truth: Transcendental Science from Cambridge to Concord (page 15)
  • 2. The Empire of Thought and the Republic of Particulars (page 53)
  • 3. Seeing New Worlds: Thoreau and Humboldtian Science (page 94)
  • 4. Cosmos: Knowing as Worlding (page 131)
  • 5. A Plurality of Worlds (page 167)
  • 6. Walking the Holy Land (page 212)
  • Notes (page 255)
  • Bibliography (page 280)
  • Index (page 294)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MP 95.2 (Nov. 1997): 273-275 http://www.jstor.org/stable/439002
ISIS 87.4 (Dec. 1996): 741-742 http://www.jstor.org/stable/235241
AL 69.1 (Mar. 1997): 215-216 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2928180
JER 16.3 (Autumn 1996): 514-516 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3124073
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Published: 1995
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299147402 (hardcover)
  • 9780299147440 (paper)
  • 9780299147433 (ebook)
Subject
  • Literature
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