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Autobiography and natural science in the age of Romanticism : Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuhn, Bernhard Helmut, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Subjects:
Authors > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Natural history in literature.
Self in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Literature and science > History.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778. > Confessions.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778. > Rêveries du promeneur solitaire.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832. > Aus meinem leben. Dichtung und wahrheit.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862. > Walden.
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of identity and the identity of nature
  • Natural science and the self in Rousseau's Confessions
  • Reveries and the re-enchantement of nature
  • Goethe's autobiographical science
  • Self-formations: order and disorder in poetry and truth
  • The metamorphosis of Thoreau
  • Prolific hybrids : Walden and Thoreau's natural history.