... Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden. By Richard Francis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 1997. xiii, 256 pp. $32.50. British author Richard Francis, a Senior...

...Michelle C. Neely Near the beginning of Walden , Henry David Thoreau tells his readers that his “experiment in living” is dedicated to learning “what are the gross necessaries of life... the grossest groceries,” a choice of metaphor that might remind us just how much of his personal and political...

...Benjamin Reiss This essay explores Henry David Thoreau's Walden in relation to the history of sleep, considered as a medical, biological, social, and spiritual phenomenon. Attention to Thoreau's striving for “awakening” and “alertness” has veiled his running rhetoric of dormancy: scenes and tropes...

...Alan Ackerman Abstract Catharine E. Beecher’s 1841 A Treatise on Domestic Economy laid the groundwork for the American environmental canon, including Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau and Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson. In conversation with other nineteenth-century American writers...

... . Fischer Michael R. 1992 . “ Walden and the Politics of Contemporary Literary Theory .” In New Essays on Walden . Edited by Sayre Robert F. . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press , 95 – 113 . Gallagher Catherine . 1998 . “ The History of Literary Criticism .” In American Academic...

... Politics: Antebellum Vegetarianism and the Dietary Economy of Walden,” 33–60. Noble, Marianne. Review: Miller, Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century, 824–26. Review: Socarides, Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics, 824–26. Nudelman, Franny. “‘Marked...

... with which founding editor Daniel Walden opened the journal’s first issue suggests the establishment of a professional scholarly field. The second date is 1978, only three years later, when Michael Krasny published an essay in MELUS titled “The Death of the American Jewish Novel,” 6 a eulogy following...

... to the woods and sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It wasnolongerbeansthatIhoed,norIthathoedbeans —Henry David Thoreau, Walden...

...). Chesnutt’s and Annis’s intimacy with Rena Walden allowed them to point toward nameless modes of being, an ethic that resonates well with queer theoretical discourse’s recent skepticism toward political homogeneity and the instrumentalization and consecration of sexuality as an identity. Chesnutt’s work...

... to images, the author accounts for the status of Germany in several pieces of American literature, including writings by Louisa May Alcott, William James, W. E. B. DuBois, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, and Thomas Pynchon. Collections More Day to Dawn: Thoreau’s “Walden” for the Twenty-first...

... African American urban neighborhood. Its (mostly African American) visitors come to it primarily as a shrine to civil rights and African American history and identity. The first of these landscapes most readers will easily identify as Walden Pond, consecrated to Henry David Thoreau and the idea...

..., September 2014 DOI 10.1215/00029831-2717362  © 2014 by Duke University Press 638  American Literature Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science. By Rob- ert M. Thorson. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2014. xviii, 421 pp. $29.95. Thorson uncovers a Thoreau who is a capable...

... Press 2  American Literature The first two essays, on sleep and food, feature the surfaces and depths—and mutability—of the human as an idea. For Benjamin Reiss, Walden registers Thoreau’s engagement with somnolent disturbances as a metacommentary on capitalism and modernity’s deformation...

... societies conceived as self-sufficient totalities” (ibid.). Ultimately, primitivism has a “decolonial horizon,” meaning that it doesn’t simply react against colonialism but positively articulates the vision of an elsewhere beyond capitalism and colonialism alike. Walden is a paradigm for Kotin...

..., and the ‘physical world’ and ‘the nonhuman environment’ come to the foreground” (40). I don’t agree that this is the argument of the critics with whom she disagrees. Walls, in particular, is eloquent on how Thoreau combines the scientific with the poetic. Also, though Davis disagrees that the post- Walden journal...

..., the year that William Lloyd Garrison founded his antislavery newspaper, the Liberator , to 1898, when James published ‘In the Cage’” (19), Furui explains the ways each writer found the virtues and values of solitude to be critical in identity formation. Walden (1854) reveals that Thoreau, “a pseudo...

... into a sensory ecstasy: ‘‘I see, smell, taste, hear, feel that everlasting Something to which we are allied’’ (Hodder, 90). In addition to AWeek,Hodderbringsfresh readings to Walden (in particular, the ‘‘Solitude’’ chapter) and Thoreau’s jour...

... updates our understanding of the author of Walden (1854) by placing renewed emphasis on his engagement with science and the environment. Thoreau saw his world transformed by the Industrial Revolution, as deforestation, railroad expansion, economic uncertainty, and river flooding impacted his life...

... are infused with the kind of imagination that filled her poetry. 198 American Literature General Hound, Bay Horse, and Turtle Dove: Obscurity and Authority in Thoreau’s ‘‘Walden By Henrik Otterberg. Gothenburg, Sweden: Gothenburg Univ. Press. 2005. 104 pp. Paper, $15.00. Commemorating the one...

... loans for survival after the depression of 1839.32 Thoreau’s two years at Walden Pond gener- ated the profitable work he later published. Their simultaneous cri- tique of and immersion in market relations provides a revealing van- tage point for reading Veronica’s aesthetic choices. Like Emerson...