Seeing New Worlds : Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Scienc...

Here we see how, just when literature and science were splitting into the &;two cultures&; we know now, Thoreau attempted to heal the growing rift. In the first critical study of his &;The Dispersion of Seeds&; since its publication in 1993, she exposes evidence that Thoreau was using Darwinian modes of reasoning years before the appearance ofOrigin of Species.

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