Books about Thoreau
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Biographical Works
Michael Benjamin Berger, Thoreau's Late Career and "The Dispersion
of Seeds": The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision (Rochester, NY: Camden
House, 2000).
Raymond R. Borst, The Thoreau Log: A Documentary Life of Henry
David Thoreau, 1817-1862 (New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1992).
Richard Bridgman, Dark Thoreau (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1982).
William Ellery Channing, Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist
(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873).
Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau (New York: Knopf, 1965).
_______________, Henry David Thoreau: A Profile (New York:
Hill and Wang, 1971).
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, The Night Thoreau Spent in
Jail (New York: Hill and Wang, 1970).
Richard Lebeaux, Thoreau's Seasons (Amherst: University
of Massachusetts Press, 1984).
_______________, Young Man Thoreau (Amherst: University
of Massachusetts Press, 1984).
Sherman Paul, The Shores of America: Thoreau's Inward Exploration
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958).
Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
Kenneth Allen Robinson, Thoreau and the Wild Appetite
(New York: AMS Press, 1957).
Henry S. Salt, Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: Richard
Bentley, 1890).
F. B. Sanborn, The Life of Henry David Thoreau (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1917).
Richard J. Schneider, Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Twayne,
1987).
Edmund A. Schofield and Robert C. Baron, eds., Thoreau's World
and Ours: A Natural Legacy (Golden, CO: North American Press,
1993).
Harmon Smith, My Friend, My Friend: The Story of Thoreau's Relationship
with Emerson (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999).
Richard Stowell, A Thoreau Gazetteer, edited by William
L. Howarth (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).
Mark Van Doren, Henry David Thoreau: A Critical Study
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916).
Interpretations of Principal Works
Stephen Adams and Donald Ross, Jr., Revising Mythologies: The
Composition of Thoreau's Major Works (Charlottesville: The University
Press of Virginia, 1988).
William E. Cain, ed., A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden (New York: The Viking
Press, 1972; San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981; expanded edition,
University of Chicago Press, 1992).
Joel Myerson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
_______________, ed., Critical Essays on Henry David Thoreau's
Walden (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988).
H. Daniel Peck, Thoreau's Morning Work: Memory and Perception
in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Journal, and
Walden (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
Robert F. Sayre, ed., New Essays on Walden (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Richard J. Schneider, ed., Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's Walden
and Other Works (New York: Modern Language Association of America,
1996).
J. Lyndon Shanley, The Making of Walden, with Text of the First
Version (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).
Raymond P. Tripp, Jr., Two Fish on One Hook (Hudson, NY:
Lindisfarne Books, 1998).
Thoreau and Native Americans
Richard F. Fleck, ed., The Indians of Thoreau: Selections from
the Indian Notebooks (Albuquerque, NM: Hummingbird Press, 1974).
Suzanne Dvorak Rose, Tracking the Moccasin Print: A Descriptive
Index to Henry David Thoreau's Indian Notebooks and a Study of the Relationship
of the Indian Notebooks to Mythmaking in Walden (Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma,
1994).
Robert F. Sayre, Thoreau and the American Indians (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1977).
Thoreau and Philosophy
Alfred I. Tauber, Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of
Knowing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
Daniel A. Dombrowski, Thoreau the Platonist (New York: Peter Lang, 1986).
Thoreau and Place
Alexander B. Adams, ed., Thoreau's Guide to Cape Cod
(New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1962).
Dona Budd, ed., Thoughts from Walden Pond, photographs
by Charles Gurche (San Francisco: Pomegranate, 1998).
Adam Gamble, In the Footsteps of Thoreau: 25 Historic & Nature Walks
on Cape Cod (Yarmouth Port, MA: On Cape Publications, 1997).
William L. Howarth, ed. Walking with Thoreau: A Literary Guide to
the Mountains of New England (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001).
_______________, ed., Thoreau in the Mountains: Writings by Henry David
Thoreau (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982).
Stephen Mulloney, Traces of Thoreau: A Cape Cod Journey
(Boston: Northeastern University, 1998).
Thoreau and Politics
Jane Bennett, Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994).
Michael Meyer, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau's Political
Reputation in America (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977).
Jack Turner, ed., A Political Companion to Henry David
Thoreau (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009).
Thoreau and Science and the Environment
Daniel B. Botkin, No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision
for Civilization and Nature (Washington, DC:
Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001).
Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature
Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1995).
David R. Foster, Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed
Landscape (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Laura Dassow Walls, Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and
Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1995).
Thoreau and Society
Daniel Walker Howe, Henry David Thoreau on the Duty of Civil
Disobedience: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of
Oxford on 21 May 1990 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).
Leonard Neufeldt, The Economist: Henry Thoreau and Enterprise
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Sublime Thoughts/Penny Wisdom: Situating
Emerson and Thoreau in the American Market (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins UP, 1995).
Thoreau and Technology
Henry Petroski, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
(New York: Knopf, 1990).
Thoreau and Transcendentalism
Lawrence Buell, Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision
in the American Renaissance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1979).
_______________, New England Literary Culture from Revolution
through Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright, eds., Transient and Permanent:
The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts (Boston: Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1999).
Joel Myerson, The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and
Criticism (New York: The Modern Language Association of America,
1984).
Joel Porte, Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict
(Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966).
F. B. Sanborn, Sixty Years of Concord, 1855-1915: Life, People,
Institutions, and Transcendental Philosophy in Massachusetts, with Memories
of Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Channing, and Others (Hartford:
Transcendental Books, 1976).
_______________, Transcendental and Literary New England: Emerson,
Thoreau, Alcott, Bryant, Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow, and Others
(Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1975).
David C. Smith, The Transcendental Saunterer: Thoreau and the
Search for Self (Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, 1997).
Michael West, Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters
and the Search for the Language of Nature (Athens, OH: Ohio
University Press, 2000).
Thoreau's Reputation
Fritz Oehlschlager and George Hendrick, eds., Toward the Making
of Thoreau's Modern Reputation: Selected Correspondence of S. A. Jones,
A. W. Hosmer, H. S. Salt, H. G. O. Blake, and D. Ricketson (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1979).
Gary Scharnhorst, Henry David Thoreau: A Case Study in Canonization
(Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1993).
Thoreau and Writing
Sharon Cameron, Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Richard Dillman, Essays on Henry David Thoreau: Rhetoric, Style
and Audience (West Cornwall, CT: Locus Hill Press, 1993).
Steven Fink, Prophet in the Marketplace: Thoreau's Development
as a Professional Writer (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1992).
Frederick Garber, Thoreau's Fable of Inscribing (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1991).
Henry Golemba, Thoreau's Wild Rhetoric (New York: New
York University Press, 1990).
William L. Howarth, The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life as a Writer
(New York: Viking Press, 1982).
Scott Slovic, Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry
Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez
(Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992).
Richard Tuerk, Central Still: Circle and Sphere in Thoreau's Prose
(The Hague: Mouton, 1975).
Bibliography
Raymond R. Borst, Henry David Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982).
_______________, Henry David Thoreau: A Reference Guide, 1835-1899
(Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1987).
Walter Harding, ed., A Bibliography of the Thoreau Society Bulletin
Bibliographies, 1941-1969: A Cumulation and Index (Troy, NY:
The Whitston Publishing Company, 1971).
Walter Harding and Michael Meyer, The New Thoreau Handbook
(New York: New York University Press, 1980).
William L. Howarth, The Literary Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974).
Robert Sattelmeyer, Thoreau's Reading: A Study in Intellectual
History with Bibliographical Catalogue (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1988).
Gary Scharnhorst, Henry David Thoreau: An Annotated Bibliography
of Comment and Criticism before 1900 (New York: Garland, 1992).
Elizabeth Hall Witherell, "Henry David Thoreau," in Richard
Kopley, ed., Prospects for the Study of American Literature: A
Guide for Scholars and Students (New York: New York University
Press, 1997), 21-38.
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Compiled by Louisa Dennis, with additions by Thoreau
Edition staff.
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