Henry David Thoreau : a life /
"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his home...
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University of Chicago Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction : Land of the grass-ground river. Tahatawan's Arrowhead ; Enclosures and commons ; The genesis of Musketaquid ; The coming of the English ; Living the revolution
- Part I. The making of Thoreau. Chapter one. Concord sons and daughters ; Coming to Concord ; The early years of John and Cynthia Thoreau ; Making Concord home ; Chapter two. Higher learning from Concord to Harvard (1826-1837) ; A Concord Education ; A Harvard portrait ; Learning to leave Harvard ; Chapter three. Transcendental apprentice (1837-1841) ; Sic Vita ; Transcendental self-culture ; Concord social culture ; The Thoreau school ; "There is no remedy for love but to love more" ; Compensations ; Chapter four. "Not till we are lost" (1842-1844) ; The death of John Thoreau ; "Surely joy is the condition of life!" New friends, new ventures ; Thoreau on Staten Island ; The road to Walden
- Part II. The making of Walden. Chapter five. "Walden, is that you? (1845-1847) ; Preparations ; On Walden Pond : the first season ; Going to extremes I : Thoreau in jail ; Going to extremes II : Thoreau on Katahdin ; Leaving Walden ; Chapter six . A writer's life (1847-1849) ; "Will you be my father?" Thoreau at the Emersons' ; "Lectures multiply on my desk" : Thoreau finds his audience ; "Civil disobedience" ; A basket of delicate texture : weaving Thoreau's week ; Chapter seven. From Concord to Cosmos : Thoreau's turn to science (1849-1851) ; "The law which reveals" : Cape Cod ; "Even this may be the year" : 1850 ; "The captain of a huckleberry party" ; Chapter eight. The beauty of nature, the baseness of men (1851-1854). Abolition and reform after the Fugitive Slave Law ; The hermit at home ; The higher law from Chesuncook to "Walden" ; Reading "Walden"
- Part III. Successions. Chapter nine. Walden-on-main (1847-1857) ; "What shall it profit?" : Thoreau after "Walden" ; Illness and recovery ; "The infinite extent of our relations" ; Chapter ten. Wild fruits (1857-1859). The last excursions to Cape Cod and the Maine woods ; Life in the commons : village, mountain, river ; "A transcendentalist above all" : Thoreau and John Brown ; Chapter eleven. A constant new creation (1860-1862). The year of Darwin ; "The West of which I speak" : Thoreau's last journey ; "The leaves teach us how to die".