The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.
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Preface
I
1. Fall 1837: Commencement. 2. Harvard under Quincy.
3. Thoreau at Harvard. 4. Concord. 5. Emerson.
6. The Classics. 7. Germany. 8. ‘Society.’
9. Concord Schoolmaster. 10. Poetry.
II 1838-1840 The Ethical Imperatives of Transcendentalism
11. Summer and Fall 1838. 12. The Eye of Henry Thoreau.
13. Self-Culture. 14. Ellen. 15. The Rivers.
16. Aeschylus, Bravery. 17. Transcendentalism.
18. Summer 1840. 19. Fall 1840. 20. December 1840.
III 1841-1843 American Reformation
21. Writing. 22. Thoreau and Emerson.
23. Brook Farm. 24. Self-Reformation. 25. The Orient.
26. Fall 1841. 27. Tragedy. 28. Excursions.
29. January and February 184 3. 30. Staten Island.
IV 1843-1845 The Road to Walden Pond
31. The New York Literary Scene. 32. ‘a Winter Walk.’
33. The Railroad Comes to Concord. 34.Inside the
Civilized Man. 35.Spring and Summer l844. 36.Fall
1844. 37. Spring 1845. 38. I Went to the Woods to Live
Deliberately. 39. The Epic of the Leaf 40. The New
Typology of the Leaf
V 1846-1849 The Profession of Letters
41. Winter 1846: Carlyle. 42. The New Adam (Smith).
43. Spring 1846: Walden. 44. The Great Awakening.
45. Summer 1846: Resistance to Civil Government.
46. North Twin Lake and’Ktaadn.’ 47. Second Year at
Walden. 48. The Letters to Blake. 49. A Perfect Piece of
Stoicism. 50. The Apollonian Vision. 51. Spring and
Summer 1849: ‘I Have Chosen Letters.’
VI 1849-1851 The Language of the Leopard:
Wildness and Society
52. Shipwreck and Salvation on Cape Cod.
53. Fall 1849, Spring 1850: Hindu Idealism.
54. Spring 1850. 55. ]uly 1850: The Wreck of the
Elizabeth. 56. August and September 1850: The Material
of a Million Concords. 57. Fall 1850: Trip to Canada.
58. The Red Face of Man I. 59. The Red Face of Man II.
60. November 1850 to April 1851: Gramatica Parda.
61. Technological Comervative. 62. Myth and Wildness.
VII 1851-1852 New Books, New Worlds
63. Spring 1851: The Naming of Apples. 64. June 1851:
The Four Worlds of Henry Thoreau. 65. Thoreau, Darwin,
and The Voyage of the Beagle. 66. Summer 1851:
Practical Transcendentalism. 67. Fa/11851: This is my
Home, my Native Soil. 68. December 1851 to February
1852: The Short Days of Winter. 69. Lapidae Crescunt.
70. A Sufficient List of Failures. 71. April 1852: William
Gilpin and the articulation of landscape. 7 2. The
Articulation of Landscape. 73. The Flowering of Man.
74. My Year of Observation. 75. August and September
1852: Country Life.
VIII 1852-1854 Walden, or the Triumph of the Organic
76. Ante-Columbian History. 77. The Jesuit Relations.
78. Pantheism. 79. America. 80. Spring 1853: The
Golden Gates. 81. Summer 1853: Walden Five. 82. Fall
1853: Friends. 83. Chesuncook. 84. ]anuary 1854:
Walden Six. 85. February and March 1854: Triumph of
the Organic. 86. Spring and Summer 1854: Anthony
Bums. 87.July and August 1854: Walden.
IX 1854-1862 The Economy of Nature
88. Night and Moonlight. 89. New Friends. 90. Life
Without Principle. 91. Recovery. 92. The Dispersion of
Seeds and the Succession of Forest Trees. 9 3. Walt Whitman
and the Ethics of lntemity. 94. The lndian. 95. Autumnal
Tints, John Ruskin, and the Innocent Eye. 96. Louis Agassiz
and the Theory of Special Creation. 97. A Plea for Captain
Brown. 98. Darwin and the Developmental Theory.
99. Beyond Transcendentalism: The Natural History
Projects. 100. One World at a Time.
Chronology
Principal Sources
Notes
Index
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Robert D. Richardson, Jr. (1934-2020) was the author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire (California, 1995) among other books. Barry Moser is one of the foremost wood engravers and book illustrators in America.
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