Issue:

№3 2017

УДК / UDK: 82-821
DOI:

10.22455/2541-7894-2017-3-459-473

Author: Elvira Ph. Osipova
About the author:

Elvira Ph. Osipova (Saint-Petersburg State Universiy, Russia; Professor emerita, Doctor Hab. of Philology)

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Abstract:

The essay, which is a tribute to Henry Thoreau on his bicentenary, focuses on several aspects of his world-view as they are reflected in his treatment of nature and his ethical doctrine of “self-reliance”.

Keywords: Henry Thoreau's bicentenary, “Walden”, “On Civil Disobedience”, American Romanticism, Transcendentalism, philosophy of nature, nonconformism.
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