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<DIV><I>A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers</I> and <I>Walden</I>, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>"Morning work," a phrase from <I>Walden</I>, is the name Peck gives to this larger project. by it he means the work done by memory and perception as they act to shape Thoreau's emerging vision of a harmonious universe. Peck argues that the changing balance of memory and perception in the three works defines the unique literary character of each of them. He offers a major reevaluation of <I>Walden</I>, which he sees neither as the epitome of Thoreau's career (the traditional view) nor as an anomaly (the recent, revisionary view). Rather, he sees <I>Walden </I>as a pivotal work, reflecting the issues of loss and remembrance that earlier had found prominent expression in <I>A Week</I> and prefiguring the l

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Author

H. Daniel Peck

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300156935

Category

nonfiction