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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Krieger, William Carl. "Henry David Thoreau and the Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Science," Washington State University, May 1986. Advisor: Joan Burbick (12, 20)
This dissertation deals with the impact of scientific thinking and activity on the content of Thoreau’s writings. It contends that Thoreau was pursuing an archaic non-Baconian brand of science which he believed to provide a means of expressing the ever-changing and interconnected nature of all forces and forms in existence. This thesis is based on thorough explication of Thoreau’s Journals and A Week as well as the published Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and secondary studies of alchemy and elementary philosophy.
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