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This special bicentennial issue of the periodical features 13 thematic essays about Henry David Thoreau. Contents: Introduction: Thoreau Bicentennial Essays / Richard J. Schneider; "The sun is but a morning star:" Thoreau's Future / Daniel S. Malachuk; The Samarae of Thought: Thoreau's Gathered Timescapes / Laura Dassow Walls; Nature, Necessity, and the Philosophy of Metaphor in Walden / Benjamin Mangrum; Thoreau's Periodic Sentences, Experiential Transcendentalism, and Scientific Method / Walter Hesford; "A Greater Vital Force:" Rhetorical Affinities between Thoreau and Darwin / Christina Root; Henry David Thoreau, American Subversive: Sensory Balance in Walden / Frank Izaguirre; Thoreau's Sound Reasoning / John Hay; Living Poems in Thoreau's Prose / Lizzy LeRud; The Red Flannel Shirt: The Dynamic Clothing Metaphor in The Maine Woods / Anne Beebe; "Wild Apples" and Thoreau's Commitment to Wildness in the Last Decade of His Life / Albena Bakratcheva; From Tracing to Writing: The Maps that Thoreau Copied / Julien Negre; Found in Translation: Panait Musoiu and the First Translation of Walden in Romania / Iuliu Ratiu.
San Diego State University, 2017. Paperback, 264 pp.
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Brings Thoreau's perspective on how to live to the twenty-first century. Thomas combines his knowledge of Thoreau's life and works with the fascinating story of his own family's decision to "live abundantly'. The book offers concrete examples of how to use Thoreau's ideas to change our lives for the better. ... Shows that we need not move to a cabin by a pond to live a happier, saner, and simpler life. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Sertorius Press, 2011. Soft Cover, 6 x 9 inch format, 177 pp.
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This is a Korean translation prepared (2011) by Inho Yoo of the book "Henry David Thoreau" by James G. Murray (1922-1998),
first published by Washington Square Press in 1968. "This book outlines the structure of Thoreau's complex thought, offering a fresh perspective on this so often analyzed ultimately elusive individual, as a moralist to the American conscience. The author enables us to see, through Thoreau's own words, what he made of himself and what he wished his audience, then and now, to make of him."
Paper Back, 6 x 9 inch format, 218 pp.
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A collection of eight articles about Thoreau and Concord. Contents: The Concord Connection ; Henry David Thoreau's Life in Concord ; Henry's Houses ; Henry David Thoreau's New Jersey Connection ; Walden Pond: A First Visitation ; Thoreau Family Calendar ; The Concord Writers Calendar ; Readings from Walden while at Walden Pond. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Wayne T. Dilts, 2019. Paperback, 101 pp.
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As the most comprehensive study of Thoreau's spirituality from a Christian perspective, this book is the first to seriously examine connections between his religious practices and those of his Protestant forebears. While a few writers have considered the relation between Thoreau's thought and Christian doctrine, this book instead outlines the links between Thoreau's religious practices and those of earlier New England Protestants. This work is also the first study to compare his journal with the spiritual journals of prominent Puritans, Anglicans, Methodists, and Quakers. Spiritual journals are treated here as a distinct literary genre.
Mercer University Press, 2009. Hardcover, 288 pp.
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Invites seekers -- religious or otherwise -- to with with Henry David Thoreau through a series of meditations on his spiritual life. Though his quest was deeply personal, Thoreau devoted his life to communicating his experience of an infinite, wild, life-giving God. By recovering this vital thread in Thoreau's life and work, this book opens the door to a new understanding of an original voice in American religion that speaks to spiritual seekers today.
The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Hardcover, 232 pp.
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Explores Thoreau's deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the poetry he saw in them, and how they fed his soul. Higgns's lively essays show that trees were a thread connecting all parts of Thoreau's being -- heart, mind, and spirit. The book includes one hundred excepts from Thoreau's writings illustrated by the author's striking black-and-white photographs of trees. This book was reviewed in Thoreau Society Bulletin 299, Fall 2017, p. 15.
Forward by Robert D. Richardson.
University of California Press, 2017. Hardcover, 6 x 8 inch format, 230 pp.
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A collection of writings that illuminate today's issues and speculate on the answers and actions that Henry David Thoreau might provide if he were asked, compiled in commemoration of his 200th birthday. Features an introductory essay by President Jimmy Carter, and contains 41 essays from a variety of authors. Followed by Volume II.
CreateSpace, 2017. Paperback, 6 x 9 inch format. 169 pp.
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Examines the various aspects of Thoreau's walking experience to determine the impact of sauntering on his life and his writings. It clarifies the relationship between Thoreau's views on and experiences with perambulating and his own unique brand of transcendentalism.
Frederic C. Beil, 1997. Hardcover, 5 x 8 inch format, 210 pp.
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A collection of writings that illuminate today's issues and speculate on the answers and actions that Henry David Thoreau might provide if he were asked. Features an introductory essay by Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Markey, and a question and answer piece for Dr. Jane Goodall. Contains 46 essays from a variety of authors. Preceded by Volume I.
Thoreau Farm Trust, 2022. Paperback, 188 pp.
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Now a classic, and in its expanded and paperback edition. Originally based on a series of 1971 lectures given by Professor Cavell at several universities. Chapters look at the Words, Sentences, and Portions of Walden, for greater understanding. Emerson is also addressed here in two essays.
University of Chicago Press, 1992. Softcover, 160 pp.
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A collection of 11 essays that offer new perspectives on conservation, the cultural ties that connect Native comunities to the land, and the profound influence the geography of the Maine Woods had on Henry David Thoreau and writers and activists who followed in his wake. Contents: "Rediscovering the Maine Woods" / John J. Kucich ; "Crossing Moosehead Lake" / Chris Sockalexis ; "Undercurrents" / Stan Tag ; "The Maine Woods Rhomboid" / Robert M. Thorson ; "'Some Star's Surface': Thoreau in the Maine Woods" / Laura Dassow Walls ; "Sublime Matter: Materiality and Language in Thoreau's 'Ktaadn'" / Melissa Sexton ; "Eating Moose: Thoreau, Regional Cuisine, and National Identity" / Kathryn Cornell Dolan ; "Pilgrimages and Working Forests: Envisioning the Commons in The Maine Woods" / James S. Finley ; "Multiple Use and Its Discontents: Popular Conservation Writing in the Maine Woods a Century after Thoreau" / Dale Potts ; "Thoreau's Maine Woods and the Problem of Wildness" / Richard W. Judd ; "Carrying Place: Penobscot Language, Land, and Memory" / James Francis. This book was reviewed in Thoreau Society Bulletin 308, Winter 2020, pp. 5-7.
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Henry David Thoreau is best known as a writer, naturalist, and social critic, but he was also a schoolteacher, surveyor, and pencilmaker. Here, Unitarian minister Barry Andrews reveals how an idiosyncratic and unconventional religious faith was central to Thoreau's many-faceted life -- a dimension that has been largely unexamined. Thoreau is also a spiritual guide who can teach us an alternative way of being religious in the world.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Paperback, 198 pp.
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Presents a ground-breaking interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Balthrop-Lewis demonstrates that Thoreau's ascetic life was a form of religious practice dedicated to cultivating a just, multispecies community. Offers the first sustained reading of Thoreau's religiously motivated politics.
Cambridge University Press, 2023. Paperback, 308 pp.
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William Homestead takes readers inside the classroom, where lost students mingle with students who think they are "found." Striving to figure out how to guide both groups, Homestead ruminates on the unfolding of his inner life, including his own struggles with formal schooling and the game of grading. He also turns to the writings of imperfect yet inspiring Henry David Thoreau, who turned inward and discovered the blessings of being lost. This book posits that climate crisis is ultimately a spiritual crisis calling us to reset the compass. Lest we lead lives of quiet desperation, we desperately need an educational system that mirrors this reality, embracing the infinite extent of our relations.
Mercer University Press, 2024. Paperback, 364 pp.
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Henry David Thoreau accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In some of these objects, particularly Indigenous artifacts, Thoreau perceived the presence of their original makers, and the called such objects "mindprints." Thoreau believed that these collections could teach him how his experience, his world, fit into the wider, more diverse (even incoherent) assemblage of other worlds created and re-created by other beings every day. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE.
The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Hardcover, 216 pp.
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Place-sense as an inherent impulse of American writing is of key interest in American Studies today. Here Albena Bakratcheva offers thirteen essays that deal with place-sense as found in a variety of work and writings by the Transcendentalists, and from Henry David Thoreau himself. This book was reviewed in Thoreau Society Bulletin #270, Spring 2010, on p. 6.
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017. Paperback, 131 pp.
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Part of the Mind and American Literature Series.
Explores the
connection between Thoreau's ecological study of nature and his intense
interest in the emerging social sciences, especially the history of
civilization and ethnology. The book first establishes Thoreau's "human
ecology," the relation between the natural sciences and the social
sciences in his thinking, exploring how his reading in contemporary
books about the history of humanity and racial science shaped his
thinking and connecting these emerging anthropological texts to his late
nature writings. It then discusses these connections in his major
works, including Walden and his "reform papers" such as "Civil
Disobedience," the travel narrative A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
Rivers, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod. The concluding chapter focuses on
Thoreau's attitude toward Manifest Destiny, arguing, against
conventional views, that considering both his life and his writing,
especially the essay "Walking," we must conclude that he both accepted
and endorsed Manifest Destiny as an inevitable result of cultural
succession. This book was reviewed in Thoreau Society Bulletin 296, Winter 2017, p. 10.
Camden House, 2016. Hard Cover, 212 pp., 6 x 9 inch format.
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