The Economist

Henry Thoreau and Enterprise

Leonard N. Neufeldt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

1989
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-505789-8 (ISBN)

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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.

This is a study of Thoreau's participation in the economic discourse of his time, when New England and America underwent an unprecedented transformation in economic thinking and behaviour. The first part of the book examines Thoreau's responses to economic and cultural conditions as a literary artist, who identified his writing as his vocation. The second part, which uses Walden as an example, attempts to offer an answer to the question of why and how Thoreau, who was very much contained by his culture and its conventions, also contested the limitations of those conventions and used his condition to transform them.

Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 154 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-19-505789-9 / 0195057899
ISBN-13	978-0-19-505789-8 / 9780195057898
Zustand	Neuware