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a| 9781625342393 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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a| Raden, Audrey,
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a| When I came to die :
b| process and prophecy in Thoreau's vision of dying /
c| Audrey Raden.
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a| Amherst :
b| University of Massachusetts Press,
c| [2017]
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a| xii, 156 pages ;
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a| Includes bibliographical references and index.
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a| Introduction: anticipation as prophecy -- 1. Figure in the mist: the death of John Thoreau, Jr. -- 2. "I did not cry": the sentimental narrative -- 3. Blood and seeds: the heroic narrative -- 4. Artoosoqu' and the buttong: from inanimate matter to mystical state -- 5. "As long as she cracks she holds": Thoreau's dying as his final text.
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a| "Scholars have long considered the elegiac characteristics of Thoreau's work. Yet few have explored how his personal views on death and dying influenced his philosophies and writings. In beautiful prose, Audrey Raden places Thoreau's views of death and dying at the center of his work, contending that it is crucial to consider the specific historical and regional contexts in which he lived--nineteenth-century New England--to fully appreciate his perspectives. To understand death and dying, Thoreau drew on Christian and Eastern traditions, antebellum Northern culture, Transcendentalism, and his personal relationship with nature. He then suffused his writings with these understandings, through what Raden identifies as three key approaches--the sentimental, the heroic, and the mystical. When I Came to Die suggests that throughout his writings, Thoreau communicated that knowing how to die properly is an art and a lifelong study, a perspective that informed his ideas about politics, nature, and individualism. With this insight, Raden opens a dialogue that will engage both Thoreauvians and those interested in American literature and thought" -- From the publisher.
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