Thoreau and the American Indians

Thoreau and the American Indians /

The book traces Thoreau's fascination with American-Indian life, his attempts to learn about it and imitate it, and also some of the differences between the Indians he read and wrote about and as they were. Sayre has put in order and analyzed the voluminous body of Indian details and emblems gi...

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Main Author: Sayre, Robert F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1977.
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Knowledge and learning.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Critique et interprétation.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862.
Thoreau, Henry David > 1817-1862
Thoreau, Henry David.
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Indians in literature.
Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature.
Indianer
United States.
USA.
Indianer.
Indians in literature
Thoreau, Henry David > 1817-1862 > Knowledge > America
Table of Contents:
  • Savagism
  • "As long as grass grows and water runs"
  • The vision quest: Walden
  • A book about Indians?
  • Beyond savagism
  • Maine: the lessons of the forest
  • On the sky-tinted river
  • Appendix : On the name and number of the "Indian books."

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