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Science on Walden Pond: The Bedrock of Truth in a Warming World
Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Walden Woods
.By Richard B.
Primack
. (Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 2014
. Pp. xii, 264. $26.00 cloth; $15.00 paper; $18.00 e-book
.)Walden's Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science
. By Robert M.
Thorson
. (Cambridge
: Harvard University Press
, 2014
, Pp. xviii, 420. $29.95
.)
Laura Dassow Walls
Laura Dassow Walls
Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where she teaches nineteenth-century American literature and science. She has published extensively on Thoreau and Emerson, and her most recent book, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America(University of Chicago Press, 2009), received the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American History and the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. Currently she is at work on a comprehensive biography of Henry David Thoreau.
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Laura Dassow Walls
Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where she teaches nineteenth-century American literature and science. She has published extensively on Thoreau and Emerson, and her most recent book, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America(University of Chicago Press, 2009), received the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American History and the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. Currently she is at work on a comprehensive biography of Henry David Thoreau.
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Print ISSN: 0028-4866
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2015
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The New England Quarterly (2015) 88 (1): 149–158.
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Laura Dassow Walls; Science on Walden Pond: The Bedrock of Truth in a Warming World. The New England Quarterly 2015; 88 (1): 149–158. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00440
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