Lawrence Buell
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, noted scholar of Transcendentalism and ecocriticism; author of Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently and other works on Thoreau, Emerson, and the environmental humanities.
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Nov 13, 2024 • 1h
How to Read Henry David Thoreau / Lawrence Buell
Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor Emeritus and noted Thoreau scholar, offers a concise guide to reading Walden and Civil Disobedience. He explores Thoreau’s Concord life, his bond with Emerson, the Walden experiment, distinctions between wildness and wilderness, Thoreau’s moral simplicity and mysticism, and the roots of his environmental and civil-disobedience legacy.
