Walden's shore : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century science PDF
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WA L D E N ’ S S H O R E WA L D E N ’ S S H O R E Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-C entury Science Robert M. Thorson Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, En gland 2014 Copyright © 2014 by Robert M. Thorson All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Thorson, Robert M., 1951– Walden’s shore : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth- century science / Robert M. Thorson. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978- 0-6 74- 72478- 5 1. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1 862. Walden. 2. Literature and science— United States— History—19th century. 3. Nature in literature. 4. Walden Woods (Mass.) I. Title. PS3048.T55 2013 2013013531 818'.303—dc23 To those who share Thoreau’s vision that Nature is a sacred place Erratic boulders at Nonesuch Pond by Herbert Gleason. From undated, hand-tinted lantern slide originally titled “Learning Rock.” Thoreau described and sketched this scene in Natick, Massachusetts, in his Journal on November 7, 1851. Courtesy Concord Free Public Library. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. —Henry David Thoreau, 1854 CONTENTS Preface xiii Introduction 1 I The Place of the Book 1 Rock Reality 21 2 Landscape of Loss 52 3 Thoreau’s Arctic Vision 82 4 After the Deluge 112 5 Meltdown to Beauty 142 Interlude 6 The Walden System 171 II The Book of the Place 7 Sensing Walden 201 8 Writing Walden 230 9 Interpreting Walden 259
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