Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/LrZEqV8 Our Common Dwelling Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature By: Lance Newman Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9781403967794, 1403967792 eText ISBN: 9781403973535, 1403973539 Copyright year: 2005 Format: PDF Available from $ 79.99 USD SKU 9781403973535 OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities. Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social authority as an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of American capitalism.
