Finding Thoreau: The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an American Icon

ISBN 978-1-62534-388-8

Cover design by Rebecca S. Neimark, Twenty-Six Letters

Cover art: Portrait of Henry David Thoreau, woodcut by Felix Vallotton, c. 1896.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Judd, Richard William, author.

Title: Finding Thoreau : the meaning of nature in the making of an environmental icon / Richard W. Judd.

Description: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Subjects: LCSH: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862—Knowledge—Natural history. | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862—Criticism and interpretation. | Nature in literature. | Nature (Aesthetics) | Environmentalism in literature.

Classification: LCC PS3057.N3 (ebook) | LCC PS3057.N3 J83 2018 (print) | DDC 818/.309‹dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018019149

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