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Laying out land: Land surveying and space configurations in Henry D. Thoreau's 'Walden', 'A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers', the journal and 'Walking'.

机译：布置土地：亨利·D·梭罗（Henry D. Thoreau）的《瓦尔登》，《康科德河和梅里马克河上的一周》，期刊和《行走》中的土地测量和空间配置。

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The premise of this dissertation is that one of the main themes of antebellum America which Henry D. Thoreau chronicles, the transformation of land into landscape, is a transformation that is a cause and an effect of different, yet related, cultural, economic, and political trends. Reading Thoreau's experiment in living, farming, and self-discovery at Walden Pond as a response to Transcendentalism's tenets of individual freedom, self-reliance, self-development, and social progress, this study demonstrates that land surveying is a precondition for claiming land-ownership as well as for planting and cultivating a new individual. Thoreau's land surveys recapitulate the sentiment that makes cultivating one's garden (diligence, self-reliance, property, and propriety) a moral imperative that transforms the landscape from "pasture for imagination" into the ground against which the American Self is measured and inscribed.;Far from being a mere accident in Thoreau's life, the profession of land surveyor is a prerequisite and a foundation for his ideal practice in and study of nature. Both a lucrative business enterprise and a draft toward published work, land surveying is to Thoreau what the lecture circuit had been to Emerson. Contributing to recent scholarship analyzing the importance of land surveying to literary studies, this study shows that Thoreau's interest and expertise in the "map genre" challenge both the nineteenth-century's and the present day's celebratory rhetoric of Manifest Destiny and American exceptionalism. Invariably told as a typological saga of the planting of a city on a hill or as a cautionary tale of conquest and plunder, only recently has the settling of America been recast as a case study of how the scientific knowledge of map making and land surveying, rather than religious, political, cultural, or economic determinism, led to the creation of a new nation. Writing during the time when transcendentalists, natural historians, and politicians were fiercely debating the prospects of the young republic by grounding its identity under the auspices of a generic "nature's nation," Thoreau creates a literary landscape that documents territorial expansion within the confines of his native village by means of land surveying.
机译：本文的前提是，亨利·D·梭罗编年史的主要主题之一是土地到景观的转换，是不同但又相关的文化，经济和社会因素的成因和结果。政治趋势。阅读Thoreau在Walden Pond进行的生活，农业和自我发现实验，以回应先验主义关于个人自由，自力更生，自我发展和社会进步的宗旨，该研究表明，土地测量是主张土地所有权的先决条件。所有权以及种植和培养新个体。梭罗的土地调查概括了使人的花园种植（勤奋，自力更生，财产和礼仪）成为一种道德义务，使景观从“想象力的牧场”转变为衡量和刻画美国自我的基础。土地测量师的职业绝不仅是梭罗生活中的一次偶然事件，它还是他理想的自然实践和研究实践的前提和基础。土地测量对于梭罗来说既是一个利润丰厚的企业，又是一份已发表的工作的草稿，这对艾伦·艾默生来说是一次演讲。这项研究表明，梭罗对“地图类型”的兴趣和专业知识对最近的学者分析土地调查在文学研究中的重要性做出了贡献，这既挑战了19世纪和当今的庆祝宣言，也体现了“清单命运”和美国例外论。总是被称为在山上种植城市的类型学传奇，或者作为征服和掠夺的警示性故事，直到最近，才改写了美国的定居作为案例研究，以研究地图制作和土地测量的科学知识，而不是宗教，政治，文化或经济决定论，而是建立了一个新国家。梭罗在超验主义者，自然历史学家和政治家通过在一个通用的“自然国家”的主持下立下自己的身份而激烈辩论年轻共和国的前景时，梭罗创造了一个文学领域，在他的范围内记录了领土扩张乡土村通过土地测量。

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    Ratiu, Iuliu E.;

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    State University of New York at Albany.;

  • 授予单位 State University of New York at Albany.;
  • 学科 Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2012
  • 页码 189 p.
  • 总页数 189
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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