Now Comes Good Sailing (eBook)

Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau

Andrew Blauner (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23095-5 (ISBN)

Infos

From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan * Kristen Case * George Howe Colt * Gerald Early * Paul Elie * Will Eno * Adam Gopnik * Lauren Groff * Celeste Headlee * Pico Iyer * Alan Lightman * James Marcus * Megan Marshall * Michelle Nijhuis * Zoe Pollak * Jordan Salama * Tatiana Schlossberg * A. O. Scott * Mona Simpson * Stacey Vanek Smith * Wen Stephenson * Robert Sullivan * Amor Towles * Sherry Turkle * Geoff Wisner * Rafia Zakaria * and a cartoon by Sandra BoyntonThe world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of Walden, "e;Civil Disobedience,"e; and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing, twenty-seven of today's leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them-and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she rereads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on the New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte's Web; and there's much more.The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • Addition • Aestheticism • All that Heaven allows • A Love Supreme • Amiri Baraka • Amusement • And That's the Truth • A Tenured Professor • Bestiary • Bruce Chatwin • Cary Grant • City of • Civilization • Close reading • Clothing • Concept • Concord River • Consciousness • Creative Work • delicacy • direct experience • Don DeLillo • Earnest (company) • Empathy • enthusiasm • erudition • etymology • Fishing • Freedom and Culture • Freedom of movement • Full of Life • Generosity • great blue heron • handyman • Health Food • Henry David Thoreau • Hippie • His Family • His Favorite • humility • Humour • idealism • I Love Lucy • indulgence • inference • inner peace • it works • J. D. Salinger • keeping up with the joneses • Light and Space • Love-In • Make a Difference • Mardi • My Day • new people • New Thought • Of Miracles • Omoo • optimism • Our Hero • Paul Goodman • Peon • perception • Personhood • phenology • Philosopher • Philosophy • Poetry • Potentiality and actuality • Practical reason • Profession • Pun • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Reductio ad absurdum • Romanticism • Ruminant • Sake • sanity • scurvy • self-consciousness • Self-knowledge (psychology) • Self-Sufficiency • sensibility • Sentience • seriousness • shelter in place • simple living • Slavery • Smarts Mountain • Sojourner Truth • Songwriter • Spontaneous Generation • Stephen Crane • subject (philosophy) • Superiority (short story) • sustainability • tall tale • Taste • Technology • The Blithedale Romance • The Individualist • Theory of Justification • The Other Hand • The Phenomenology of Spirit • The Pursuit of Love • The True Word • The Various • Thought • tranquillity • Transcendentalism • Typee • Walden Pond • white rice • Writing • Yankee ingenuity
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23095-1 / 0691230951
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23095-5 / 9780691230955