Thoreau’s Nature: Research field with Thomas P. Slaughter (10/23/2014)

The field addresses Henry David Thoreau’s ideas about nature, his place in the history of nature writing, and the literary, historical, and cultural contexts within which he wrote. It also considers his naturalist and literary legacies.

Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge, MA, 1995.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. NY, 1983.

Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. New Haven, 2004.

Fritzell, Peter A. Nature Writing and America: Essays upon a Cultural Type. Ames, IA, 1990.

Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism: A History. NY, 2007.

Harding, Walter. The Days of Henry Thoreau. NY, 1965.

Lebeaux, Richard. Thoreau’s Seasons. Amherst, 1984.

______. Young Man Thoreau. Amherst, 1975.

Lewis, R. W. B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, 1955.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden. NY, 1964.

Maynard, W. Barksdale. Walden Pond: A History. NY, 2004.

McKibben, Bill, ed. American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau. NY, 2008.

Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness. New Haven, 1991.

Pipkin, John. Woods Burner. NY, 2009.

Richardson, Robert D., Jr. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley, 1995.

______. Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Berkeley, 1986.

Robinson, David M. Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism. Ithaca, 2004.

Sackman, Douglas Cazaux, ed. A Companion to American Environmental History. Malden, MA, 2010.

Stilgoe, John R. Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845. New Haven, 1982.

Sullivan, Robert. The Thoreau You Don’t Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant. NY, 2009.

Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility. NY, 1983.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden (1854).

______. The Maine Woods (1864).

______. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

______. Cape Cod (1865).

______. The Journal, 1837-1861, Damion Searls, ed. (NYRB Classics).

______. “Walking,” Atlantic Monthly (1863).

______. “Civil Disobedience” (1866).

______. “Slavery in Massachusetts” (1854).

______. “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” Echoes of Harper’s Ferry (1860).

______. “Autumnal Hints” (1862).