The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau [Hardcover]

This is an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau.Presenting essays by distinguished contributors, this collection is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the monumental Walden, or on Thoreau's assorted journals and later books.Presenting essays by distinguished contributors, this collection is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the monumental Walden, or on Thoreau's assorted journals and later books.Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings such as A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on Thoreau's assorted journals and later books. It also serves in some ways as a biographical guide, offering new insights into his turbulent publishing career, and his brief but extraordinarily original life.1. Thoreau's reputation Walter Harding; 2. Thoreau and Concord Robert D. Richardson, Jr; 3. Thoreau and Emerson Robert Sattelmeyer; 4. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Linck C. Johnson; 5. Thoreau as poet Elizabeth Hall Wetherell; 6. Thoreau and his audience Steven Fink; 7.Walden Richard J. Schneider; 8. Thoreau in his journal Leonard N. Neufeldt; 9. The Maine Woods Joseph J. Moldenhauer; 10. 'A Wild Rank Place': Thoreau's Cape Cod Philip F. Gura; 11. Thoreau's later natural history writings Ronald Wesley Hoag; 12. Thoreau and the natural environment Lawrence Buell; 13. Thoreau and reform Len Gougeon; Index. Taken together, the essays provide a comprehensive guide to how to read, understand, and appreciate Thoreau....Myerson should be commended for selecting and gathering the very best on Thoreau in a single slim volume. Choice ...this volume works splendidly well both for beginning sl“9