Thoreau Beyond Borders by Franois Specq, Laura Dassow Walls,... - 9781625345561

Thoreau Beyond BordersNew International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer\nAuthor(s): Franois Specq, Laura Dassow Walls, Julien Ngre\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625345561, 978-1625345561\nSynopsis\nHenry David Thoreau spent his life as an intellectual vagrant, jumping fences, pushing boundaries, and crossing borders. How, why, and to what end are the questions asked by contributors to this new volume of essays, whose work crosses national and disciplinary borders to think about Thoreau anew. Deliberately invoking Thoreau's commitment to \""living a border life,\"" a life located between the world of nature and that of the polis, these varied essays explore the writer's thinking and writing as situated not merely against, but across and beyond borders and boundaries -- whether geographic, temporal, or spiritual. Arguing that literary texts are governed by mediation a.