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Alexander von Humboldt's natural history legacy and its relevance for today
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Boston University, October 8 - 9, 1999A Symposium commemorating the 200 th Anniversary of the beginning of Alexander von Humboldt's five year pioneering expedition in the American tropics
Laura Dassow Walls is Associate Professor of English at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in early American literature and in literature and science. She has pursued her interest in literature and science since the beginning of her graduate study at Indiana University, from which she eamed her Ph.D. in 1992. Her book, Seeing New Worids: Henry David Thoreau andNineteenlh-Cenlury Natural Science (Wisconsin, 1995), places Thoreau within the context of contemporary debates about science, and argues that Alexander von Humboldt was a crucial and hitherto unrecognized influence on Thoreau's career as a naturalist. She has published articles on Thoreau, Emerson, Humboldt, Agassiz, and others in books and in such Journals as American Quarterly, Configurations, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and ISLE (Inlerdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment). Her current book project focuses on Emerson and science.
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