SOURCE: Johnson, Paul David. “Thoreau's Redemptive Week.” American Literature 49, no. 1 (March 1977): 22‐33.
In the following essay, Johnson contends that the quest for self‐liberation is central to A Week, a quest advanced through the cyclical representation of time.
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