Thoreau's aesthetics and 'the domain of the superlative'

Environmental Values

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-305

  Phillips, Dana ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Ecocriticism; Imagination; Thoreau; Values

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; ESTHETICS;

EID: 33748476990     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096327106778226220     Document Type: Article

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