Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal

by Cameron (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1989

  $31.11

  At his death, Henry Thoreau left the majority of his writing unpublished. The bulk of this material is a journal that he kept for twenty-four years. Sharon Cameron's major claim is that this private work (the Journal ) was Thoreau's primary work, taking precedence over the books that he published in his lifetime. Her controversial thesis views Thoreau's Journal as a composition that confounds the distinction between public and private-the basis on which our conventional treatment of discourse depends.