Abbreviations

Introduction



PART 1: Historical and Theoretical Contexts

1. Pastoral Ideology

2. New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities

3. Representing the Environment

4. Walden's Environmental Projects



PART 2: Forms of Literary Ecocentrism

5. The Aesthetics of Relinquishment

6. Nature's Personhood

7. Nature's Face, Mind's Eye: Realizing the Seasons

8. Place

9. Environmental Apocalypticism



PART 3: Environmental Sainthood

10. The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage

11. The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau

12. Text as Testament: Reading Walden for the Author



Appendix Nature's Genres: Environmental Nonfiction at the Time of Thoreau's Emergence

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.

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