Linck C. Johnson (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: Johnson, Linck C. “‘Whose Law is Growth’: A Week and Thoreau's Early Literary Career.” In Thoreau's Complex Weave: The Writing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, pp. 202‐47. Charlottesville, Va.: The University Press of Virginia, 1986.
[In the following excerpt, Johnson relates the troubled ten‐year history of A Week, from the river trip to initial publication.]
As the above chapters indicate, the writing of A Week charts Thoreau's literary and intellectual...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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