Thoreau's botany : thinking and writing with plants /

"Warren argues that Thoreau's botanical studies and excursions during the last decade of his life constitute a new way of approaching his literary works, both published and unpublished. The book focuses on the practices of plant-thinking, including the repeated daily excursions to swamps,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warren, James Perrin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Series:Under the sign of nature.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The two botanical excursions of the Maine woods
  • Cape Cod and the seven excursions
  • Walden as botanical excursion
  • Thoreau's Kalendar : reading the journal through plants
  • The dispersion of seeds and the writer's faithful record
  • Wild fruits and transformative perceptions
  • Epilogue : walking in the anthropocene.