Facts into Truths: Henry David Thoreau and the Role of Hard Facts in Creative Nonfiction
Keywords
craft essay, Henry David Thoreau, natural world
Abstract
Allow me to take you back in time a bit, back to Massachusetts in the 1830s. Picture endless forests teaming with wild hare and muskrat, rivers and lakes bubbling with pickerel and minnow, the sky aflutter with robin and hawk, hearty soil waiting for the bright blade of a New England farmer’s plow. What is the government of a fledgling democracy to do when faced with such abundance? Take inventory, of course.
Original Publication Citation
“Facts into Truths.” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies 3.2 (Spring 2017): 16 ms. pages.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Franklin, Joey, "Facts into Truths: Henry David Thoreau and the Role of Hard Facts in Creative Nonfiction" (2017). Faculty Publications. 6723.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/6723
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
Assay
Language
English
College
Humanities
Department
English
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