REVIEW: Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science (2014) by Robert M. Thorson

Authors

  • Yeojin Kim University of Nebraska-Lincoln

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.6.11544

Keywords:

Henry David Thoreau, Agassiz, nineteenth-century science, ecocriticism

Abstract

Robert M. Thorson draws on the methodologies of bibliography studies, Ecocriticism, and the history of geology, and investigates another aspect of Thoreau’s career – that of a field geologist with a keen insight into the glaciated landscape of Concord during the late Pleistocene.

Author Biography

  • Yeojin Kim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    I am a doctoral student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I was the recipient of 2012-2014 Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarships and a short-term research fellowship from the Thoreau Society. I earned my MA in English Language Education from Seoul National University in Republic of Korea, where I am a certified secondary English teacher.

References

Thorson, Robert M. Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge: Harvard UP. (2014) 421 pp.

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Published

2017-03-07

Issue

Vol. 6 (2016): AJE: The Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Section

Book Reviews

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