Thoreau

Boetie Etienne de la, Bonnefon Paul: The Politics of Obedience and Etienne de la Boetie - Introduction by Murray N. Rothbard, Montreal Black Rose Books 2007

sehr gut erh., 152 S., kt. Boeties classic work of political reflection, "Discourse of Voluntary Servitude" (german title "Von der freiwilligen Knechtschaft des Menschen"), laid the ground work for the concept of civil disobedience, and as such, has exerted an important influence on the traditions of dissidence from Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Emerson to Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi.

[KW: Anarchismus, Politoologie, Politikwissenschaft, Politische Theorien, Freiwillige Knechtschaft, Tyrannen, Tyrannei, Tyrannenherrschaft, Ziviler Ungehorsam, anarchism, anarchy, social history]

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CORNHILL MAGAZINE. Publ. London, John Murray. Vols. 1-110, 112-117, 163-185. London, 1860-1918, 1947/49-1975.

Cloth. (ZY23299) Also numbered: 1-47, New series 1-26 (s. II), New series 1-74 (s. III), Number 148- (1933)- Edited by Smith, Elder and Co. Publishes continuations stories. Vols. 1-2 contains the important novel of Anthony Trollope: Framley Parsonage with the Millai's illustrations. A forum for all English writing authors (Stevenson, Burns, Whitman, Thoreau) who published a lot of works first in the Cornhill Magazine.

[KW: England; England; Englische Literaturgeschichte; Englische Literaturgeschichte]

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Banerjee, Mita: Ethnic Ventriloquism. Literary Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. (American Studies 159 ). Heidelberg: Winter 2008.
To read the foundational texts of the American Renaissance as well as other canonical nineteenth-century texts as instances of "literary minstrelsy" may at first seem counterintuitive not only in the apparent confounding of popular and literary cultures, but also in the relative significance such a reading would accord to the ethnic difference portrayed in these narratives. Yet, such a reversal of perspective is precisely what this book suggests. Are the strolling Indian in Thoreau's Walden, the Native physician in The Scarlet Letter, or the unkempt Mexican girl in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, really only incidental to these literary narratives? Proposing the concept of "ethnic ventriloquism," this study argues that the commitment of nineteenth-century America to democratic self-renewal may be much more indebted to ethnic sources than it would at first appear. America's pledge to democracy may in fact be an instance of a white subject speaking in an ethnic voice, a literary instance of brownface, redface, yellowface, or blackface. The aim of this re-reading of nineteenth-century American literature is to recover the referent of such ethnic ventriloquism, to imagine the moment where the "real" owner of the ethnic voice appears alongside the white ventriloquist to contemplate the logic of national self-definition of which he may not only be the source, but - in a reversal of roles between ventriloquist and ventriloquist's dummy - the mastermind.

312 S. Kart. *neuwertig*

[KW: Anglistik; Ethnologie; Literaturwissenschaft; Melville, Hermann; Musik; Poe, E.A.]

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KECK, Michaela: Walking in the Wilderness. The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting. (American Studies 134). Heidelberg: Winter 2006.
This book investigates the adaptation and transformation of the European peripatetic tradition in nineteenth-century America; in particular Henry David Thoreau's literary walks and their visual counterparts in American landscape painting. Although Thoreau's perambulations in New World nature have been stated in scholarship, no study has offered a comparative analysis, nor has the philosophic-contemplative aspect of his "art of Walking" been sufficiently studied. The present study puts his walking pattern into a transatlantic as well as interdisciplinary context and illuminates the uniquely American aesthetic-philosophic considerations underlying the genre of the walk in American nineteenth-century literature and painting.

304 S. Kart. *neuwertig*

[KW: Anglistik; Literaturwissenschaft; Malerei]

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