"The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism
Author
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.
Date
2015
Citation:
APA:
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.)
MLA:
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.
June 29, 2024.
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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Publisher
East Carolina University