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The Moment of Walden
When a student is first introduced to Walden, it seems that he is told, perhaps rather hastily, that the text and its author are the first of many things. Walden is the ur-text of American nature writing as a genre … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, American nature writing, Charles Darwin, Darwin, David Henry Thoreau, ecocentrism, evolution, Great Chain of Being, Henry David Thoreau, homocentrism, Literature, nature writing, Romantic Natural History, Romanticism, Thoreau
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The Literary Climate 