The Economist : Henry Thoreau and Enterprise.
Title:
The Economist : Henry Thoreau and Enterprise.
Author:
Neufeldt, Leonard N.
ISBN:
9780195363333
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Key to Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I: Enterprise, Economy, and Vocation -- 1. An Enterprise of Self-Culture in a Culture of Enterprise -- 2. The Economist of Walden -- 3. Comparative Demands -- II: Walden and the Guidebook for Young Men -- 4. The Young Man's Guide -- 5. The American Success Manual for Young Men -- 6. Walden as Parody -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This major study examines Thoreau's participation in the economic discourse of his time and place. It focuses on cultural conditions in the time of Thoreau, his awareness of them, and his responses to them as a literary artist who identified his writing as his vocation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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