Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings

Preface		ix
A Note on the Texts		xi
Map of Thoreau's Concord		xii
The Texts of Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
Walden		5	(222)
Map of Walden Pond		193	(32)
Textual Appendix to Walden		225	(2)
Other Writings
Civil Disobedience		227	(20)
Slavery in Massachusetts		247	(13)
Walking		260	(28)
Wild Apples		288	(25)
Journal
The Journal and Walden		313	(6)
Selections from the Journal, 1845-54		319	(61)
Reviews and Posthumous Assessments
[Review of Walden]		380	(1)
[Review of Walden]		381	(1)
[Review of Walden]		382	(1)
Gamaliel Bailey?
[Review of Walden]		383	(1)
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
A Yankee Diogenes		384	(3)
Charles Frederick Briggs
[Review of Walden]		387	(1)
[Review of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden]		388	(2)
Lydia Maria
[Review of Walden]		390	(1)
George Eliot
[Review of Excursions]		391	(1)
[Review of Excursions]		392	(1)
[Review of Excursions]		393	(1)
[Review of A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers]		393	(1)
[Review of A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers]		394	(1)
Sidney H. Morse
Thoreau		394	(16)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoreau		410	(8)
James Russell Lowell
Another Word on Thoreau		418	(15)
John Burroughs
Modern Criticism
Walden
Walden: Craftsmanship vs. Technique		433	(9)
F. O. Matthiessen
Walden---1954		442	(8)
E. B. White
[Walden's Transcendental Pastoral Design]		450	(15)
Leo Marx
[Captivity and Despair in Walden and ``Civil Disobedience'']		465	(17)
Stanley Cavell
A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden		482	(7)
Barbara Johnson
The Remaking of Walden		489	(18)
Robert Sattelmeyer
The Worlding of Walden		507	(14)
H. Daniel Peck
Walden as Feminist Manifesto		521	(6)
Laura Dassow Walls
Thoreau and the Natural Environment		527	(17)
Lawrence Buell
``Civil Disobedience'' And ``slavery In Massachusetts''
Thoreau's Politics of the Upright Man		544	(12)
Richard Drinnon
Thoreau's Narrative Art in ``Civil Disobedience''		556	(8)
Barry Wood
The Price of Privilege: ``Civil Disobedience'' at 150		564	(8)
Evan Carton
Quiet War with the State: Henry Thoreau and Civil Disobedience		572	(14)
Robert A. Gross
Fourth of July		586	(10)
Albert J. von Frank
``Walking'' and ``Wild Apples''
``The Limits of an Afternoon Walk'': Coleridgean Polarity in Thoreau's ``Walking''		596	(17)
William Rossi
Thoreau's Gramatica Parda: Conjugating Race and Nature		613	(19)
Neill Matheson
The Language of Prophecy: Thoreau's ``Wild Apples''		632	(13)
Steven Fink
[Capitalism and Community in Walden and Wild Fruits]		645	(16)
Lance Newman
A Chronology		661	(6)
Henry D. Thoreau
Selected Bibliography		667

Henry David Thoreau spent almost his entire life in the village of Concord, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1817. After graduating from Harvard College in 1837, he developed a deep friendship with the writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, the foremost figure in the Transcendentalist movement. Emerson’s emphasis on the cultivation of intuition and experience as keys to personal and social enlightenment profoundly influenced Thoreau. In 1845, Thoreau built a small cabin on a parcel of land Emerson owned near Walden Pond, where he lived for most of two years, seeking a new relationship to nature, society, and his own self. His experiences there are the raw material of his masterpiece, Walden, or Life in the Woods. Although he was first and last a writer and outdoorsman, Thoreau worked as a surveyor and handyman and was an active abolitionist and opponent of war and imperialism. He died in 1862 of tuberculosis. William Rossi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the editor of Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays, co-editor of Henry D. Thoreau, Journal 3: 1848–1851 and Journal 6 (Princeton University Press), and author of numerous articles on American literature.