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Journal Article
The Understory
2023
Overview
Thoreau’s Walden might be the most famous first-person narrative in American letters, but the book also tells a story of a remarkable community that emerges at the edge of Concord, where marginalized peoples fashion rich lives closely interwoven with the more-than-human inhabitants of the woods and waters that eluded the ax, the plow, and the railroad. On this cultural edge, Thoreau forges a new ontology and a new ethics, an understory that serves as a useful touchstone for Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory. In both, people leave behind the quiet desperation of society to find themselves transformed by the world that still flourishes at the edges of the capitalist world.
Publisher
Thoreau Society, Inc
