Labor in Thoreau’s Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v19i.1816Keywords:
Henry David Thoreau, labor, intellect, wilderness, civilizationAbstract
Henry David Thoreau plays a critical role in the development of transcendentalist thought and literature. In Thoreau’s Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Thoreau reflects upon what labor means. As a parody of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, Thoreau expands and negotiates the meaning of labor. Thoreau elaborates the speculative philosophy of intellectual labor and the relationship between work and contemplation, wilderness and civilization. Labor, for Thoreau, has a constant and imperishable moral.
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Gilmore, Michael T. “Walden and ‘the curse of trade’.” American Romanticism and the Marketplace. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. 35-51.
Neufeldt, Leonard N. “Thoreau’s Enterprise of Self-Culture in a Culture of Enterprise.” American Quarterly 39.2 (Summer, 1987): 231-51.
Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden. New York: The Library of America, 1985.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. New York: The Library of America. 1985.
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