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Laura walls thoreau biography

          Walls traces the full arc of Thoreau's life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and.!

          “Laura Dassow Walls has written an engaging, sympathetic, and subtly learned biography that mounts a strong case for Thoreau's importance Thoreau's.

        1. A superb new biography of the seer of Walden Pond reconsiders his reputation as tax-refuser, recluse, environmentalist and writer.
        2. Walls traces the full arc of Thoreau's life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and.
        3. Biography.
        4. In her biography we hear Thoreau's voice of spiritual quest, of social justice and a new kind of transcendental science.

          5. Laura Walls

          American professor of English literature

          Laura Dassow Walls (born Laura Dassow in Ketchikan, Alaska) is an American professor emerita of English at the University of Notre Dame.[1]

          Areas of research

          Walls has researched the intersections of literature and science in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander von Humboldt and related authors.[2] She specializes in American Transcendentalism—especially Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, transatlantic romanticism, literature and science, and environmental literature and ecocriticism.[3]

          Books authored

          • Walls, Laura Dassow (July 7, 2017).

            Henry David Thoreau: A Life. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN .

          • Walls, Laura Dassow (September 30, 2009).

            Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Laura Dassow Walls has written a new life of Henry David Thoreau.

            The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN .

          • Walls, Laura Dassow (March 6, 2003). E