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    "The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism

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    McMillan, Bryan Todd
    Abstract
    This thesis is a critical intervention in contemporary Thoreau scholarship. It argues against Ashton Nichols's application of his concept of "urbanature" to the writings and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's concept of "wildness" is not compatible with "urbanature;" indeed, "wildness offers solutions to ecological problems that "urbanature" fails to provide. It critiques the ideologies that undergirded industrial capitalism and other exploitive systems. Given that these systems cause or contribute to pressing ecological problems, as well as social, this thesis calls for a return to Thoreau's transformative understanding of "wildness" to address them.  
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4907
    Subject
     Environmental studies; Literature; Ecology; Industrial capitalism; Urbanature; Urban nature; Wilderness; Wildness; Thoreau and urbanature 
    Date
    2015
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    McMillan, Bryan Todd. (January 2015). "The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4907.)

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    McMillan, Bryan Todd. "The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2015. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4907. February 20, 2019.
    Chicago:
    McMillan, Bryan Todd, “"The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2015).
    AMA:
    McMillan, Bryan Todd. "The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2015.
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