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- Title
“Who Are We? Where Are We?”: Contact and Literary Navigation in The Maine Woods.
- Authors
Finley, James S.
- Abstract
This article examines Maine's nineteenth-century wilderness as a place of multi-dimensional contact zones in Henry David Thoreau's book "The Maine Woods." It argues that Thoreau attempts to depict himself within, rather than to one side of, the contact zones. In the book, Thoreau does not resemble a transcendentalist in crisis or a developing ecologist so much as a travelling writer positioning himself in ways that will enable him to navigate.
- Subjects
WILDERNESS areas in literature; MAINE Woods, The (Book); THOREAU, Henry David, 1817-1862; NAVIGATION in literature
- Publication
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 2, p336
- ISSN
1076-0962
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/isle/iss062