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Randolph, Richard S.

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Marginalized Thoreau: A sociological study of Henry David Thoreau's sympathy with the economic and ethnic underclass.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Marginalized Thoreau: A sociological study of Henry David Thoreau's sympathy with the economic and ethnic underclass./
Author:	Randolph, Richard S.
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-10, Section: A, page: 4372.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-10A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9709801
ISBN:	0591172704

Marginalized Thoreau: A sociological study of Henry David Thoreau's sympathy with the economic and ethnic underclass.
Randolph, Richard S.

Marginalized Thoreau: A sociological study of Henry David Thoreau's sympathy with the economic and ethnic underclass. - 200 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-10, Section: A, page: 4372.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1996.

Henry David Thoreau has been so mischaracterized as one of the New England elite that the image of his self-righteous aloofness has shaped our readings of his works and our attitudes about him. My work shows, conversely, that his economic and ethnic background, that is, his lifelong poverty and French ancestry, marginalized him in subtle ways that shaped his perspective and contributed to his hostility toward the status quo and his sympathy for the underclass. His outsider status did not make him principally a humanitarian, for that was not his chief interest, but it resulted in his identifying with, attempting to understand, and ultimately defending the underclass, such as Irish and French immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans.

ISBN: 0591172704Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Marginalized Thoreau: A sociological study of Henry David Thoreau's sympathy with the economic and ethnic underclass.
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520 $a Henry David Thoreau has been so mischaracterized as one of the New England elite that the image of his self-righteous aloofness has shaped our readings of his works and our attitudes about him. My work shows, conversely, that his economic and ethnic background, that is, his lifelong poverty and French ancestry, marginalized him in subtle ways that shaped his perspective and contributed to his hostility toward the status quo and his sympathy for the underclass. His outsider status did not make him principally a humanitarian, for that was not his chief interest, but it resulted in his identifying with, attempting to understand, and ultimately defending the underclass, such as Irish and French immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans.
520 $a To establish Thoreau's financial problems, I review biographical information regarding the Thoreau's financial plight and his own difficulties in earning a living as a writer. I also discuss nineteenth-century New England's attitudes toward French immigrants, how contemporary descriptions of Thoreau were tainted by ethnic stereotypes, and finally how Thoreau identified with this ethnic group.
520 $a My discussion of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers focuses on Thoreau's allegorical challenge to his marginality. I illustrate how the work's seemingly unrelated themes consistently embody oppressive relationships in which Thoreau identifies with the subjugated. Looking at Walden and Cape Cod, I point out Thoreau's identification with and simultaneous fear of Irish immigrants and how these conflicting emotions affect his descriptions of them. Finally, I argue that The Maine Woods represents another attempt to find community among another under-represented class: Native Americans.
520 $a In considering the ramifications of my findings, I argue that a more complete understanding of Thoreau's works results when readers recognize that Thoreau consistently identified with and defended French, Irish, and Native Americans. Painfully aware of his own problematic position, he attempted to distance himself from the oppressive social context and, his writing reveals, to incorporate these ethnic minorities into his own world.
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