Description: Proposes an interdisciplinary solution to the "Thoreau problem" through the connection between his ecological study of nature and his intense interest in the emerging social sciences.
Review Quotes: Schneider offers a way to solve the 'Thoreau Problem, ' that is, the critical and general readers' tendency to compartmentalize Thoreau as either the rebel or the visual poet .... Manifest destiny and human ecology come together to contextualize Thoreau in an innovative manner that has illuminated decades of devoted scholarly life with Thoreau's work.-- "THOREAU SOCIETY BULLETIN"