Walden Civil Disobedience And Other Writings Authoritative Texts Journal Reviews And Posthumous Assessments Criticism Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, William Rossi (ed.) 9780393930900, 0393930904 instant download after payment.

This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three
important post-Walden essays, “Slavery in Massachu-
setts,” “Walking,” and “Wild Apples,” bringing the full scope
of Thoreau’s mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The
texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau’s survey of —
Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its
environs. As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous
excerpts from Thoreau’s journal, reprinted by special arrangement with
Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings.
Spanning the years 1845-54, these selections vividly display Thoreau’s
intensive exploration of his local landscape; the fusion of literary and
natural history field work that informs Walden, “Walking,” and “Wild
Apples”; and the growth of his environmental imagination. ’
“Reviews and Posthumous Assessments” for this edition collects
eight new reviews of Thoreau’s antislavery and late environmental
essays as well as of Walden. To the influential portraits of Thoreau by
Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Russell Lowell, the Third Edition
adds John Burroughs's “Another Word on Thoreau,” his response to
them and to his great predecessor.
“Recent Criticism” includes eighteen selections of the best historical,
political, philosophical, poststructuralist, and environmental criticism
of Thoreau's writing since the mid-twentieth century. To classic pieces
by E. B. White, Leo Marx, Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Cavell, the
Third Edition adds essays by nine new contributors, among them
Lawrence Buell, Laura Dassow Walls, Evan Carton, Robert A. Gross,
Albert J. von Frank, Steven Fink, and William Rossi.
A Chronology of Thoreau’s life and work, new to the Third Edition,
and an expanded and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.