Transcendental Vacations: Thoreau and Emerson in the Wilderness

Stowe, William W.

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September 01 2010

Transcendental Vacations: Thoreau and Emerson in the Wilderness

William W. Stowe

William Stowe, Professor of English at Wesleyan University, writes on nineteenth-century American literature and culture and teaches courses on literature and environment. Recent publications include “Reading Mount Auburn”Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 2006), “‘A Minister of Happiness’: Nature in Beecher's America” (ISLE, 2006), “‘Property in the Horizon’: Landscape and American Travel Writing” (Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing 2009), and “Transatlantic Subjects” (American Literary History, 2010).

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William W. Stowe

William Stowe, Professor of English at Wesleyan University, writes on nineteenth-century American literature and culture and teaches courses on literature and environment. Recent publications include “Reading Mount Auburn”Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 2006), “‘A Minister of Happiness’: Nature in Beecher's America” (ISLE, 2006), “‘Property in the Horizon’: Landscape and American Travel Writing” (Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing 2009), and “Transatlantic Subjects” (American Literary History, 2010).

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

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2010

The New England Quarterly (2010) 83 (3): 482–507.

https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00043

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Wilderness vacations were becoming popular in the antebellum period. Thoreau's Maine sojourns and Emerson's Adirondack camping trip offered opportunities to rethink relations between humans and nature. Thoreau's vacation essays explore the meanings of contact with objects, plants, animals, and people. Emerson's vacation poem affirms and challenges human domination of the natural world.

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