Henry David Thoreau and the Nick of Time
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Henry David Thoreau felt he was born in the nick of time, at the cusp of the modern global capitalist era, what he called in WALDEN "this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century." His effort to live between two eternities, the past and the future, involved both a sharp focus on the injustices of his own time and attention to the longer rhythms and cycles of time that resist the temporalities of "progress" and "efficiency." Thoreau wove ancient human and non-human understandings of time into the Concord of his present while resisting the historical pressures of his own world. To…mehr

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Henry David Thoreau felt he was born in the nick of time, at the cusp of the modern global capitalist era, what he called in WALDEN "this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century." His effort to live between two eternities, the past and the future, involved both a sharp focus on the injustices of his own time and attention to the longer rhythms and cycles of time that resist the temporalities of "progress" and "efficiency." Thoreau wove ancient human and non-human understandings of time into the Concord of his present while resisting the historical pressures of his own world. To see the world more clearly, Thoreau argued, we need to step outside of our ordinary perception of time and seize the moment. This collection of essays brings together a range of distinguished and exciting new Thoreau scholars from across the globe who address some of the implications of Thoreau's manifold explorations of the nature of time and their meaning for his world and ours.
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KATHRYN C. DOLAN is professor of English at Missouri University of Science and Technology, publishing articles on Thoreau in HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN CONTEXT and REDISCOVERING THE MAINE WOODS. She serves on the board of directors of the Thoreau Society. JOHN J. KUCICH is a professor of English at Bridgewater State University and author of UNSETTLING THOREAU: NATIVE AMERICANS, SETTLER COLONIALISM, AND THE POWER OF PLACE. He serves as president of the Thoreau Society. HENRIK OTTERBERG, a Swedish economist at Kagaku Analys AB, wrote his PhD on Thoreau's aesthetics. Since 2017, he has served as bibliographer and review editor for the Thoreau Society Bulletin. He has organized international Thoreau conferences in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Reykholt, Iceland.