Please join us for a talk by Professor Lawrence Buell on his new book, Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently.

Professor Buell will discuss Thoreau’s multiple claims to fame, several challenging issues in Thoreau’s writing, thought, and life on which his book sheds light, the challenge—and delights—of reading Thoreau’s quirky prose, and why he was moved to write this book.

Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. His previous books include Literary Transcendentalism, New England Literary Culture, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Invention of American Culture, Emerson, and the anthology The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings. He is a long-term member of the Thoreau Society, a recipient of the Society’s Thoreau Medal, and a three-time keynoter at the Annual Gatherings.