Index

abolitionism, 20–22

Adams, Raymond, 110, 119, 137

Alcott, Bronson, 8–9, 20, 25, 36, 37–38, 43–44, 45, 48–49

Alger, William Rounseville, 31

American literature, development of, 2, 3, 4, 11, 18, 27, 29, 34–35, 58–61

anarchism, 116

Anti-slavery and Reform Papers, 35

Atkinson, Brooks, 88, 91, 110, 136

“Autumnal Tints,” 32–33

Bazalgette, Léon, Henry Thoreau, Bachelor of Nature, 90–91, 98

Beard, Charles, 89

Beard, Mary, 89

Bennett, Jane, 163–64, 169

Berry, Wendell, 158–59

Beston, Henry, 57, 102, 103, 152

Blake, Harrison, 46, 49, 50, 51, 54, 67, 68

Bode, Carl, 102, 111, 127

Borland, Hal, 103, 104

Borsodi, Ralph, 103

Botkin, Daniel, 154–55, 166

Brown, John, 21–22, 79

Buell, Lawrence, 2, 67–68, 82, 93, 108, 165

Burroughs, John, 33, 46, 58, 63, 69–73, 74, 79, 80, 83

Calverton, V. F., 3, 93, 98

Canby, Henry, 27, 35, 37, 49, 88, 91, 97, 98, 122, 164

Cape Cod, 35

Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 139–41, 165

Channing, Ellery, 8, 9, 37; Thoreau, The Poet Naturalist: With Memorial Verses, 38–40, 43

“Civil Disobedience,” 20–21, 111, 132

Civil War, 33

Cold War, 96–99, 102–3, 122–23

Colonial Revival, 41–43, 45

Concord, 7–10, 13–14, 42–46, 145

Concord Days (Alcott), 38

Concord School of Philosophy, 45–46, 49

Condry, William, 12, 136, 150

Cronon, William, 163, 168

Curtis, Kent, 142, 163, 166

Darwinism, 64

Dean, Bradley, 20, 165

Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 80–81, 82

ecology, 137–41

Edel, Leon, 127–28

Emerson, Edward, 1, 56, 66, 68, 83–84

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 8–10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 26, 27–29, 33–34, 36, 40, 45–46

environmental movement, 133–35, 141–42, 146–47, 152–55

eulogies to Thoreau, 28, 36, 40

Excursions, 36

Flagg, Wilson, 62

Foerster, Norman, 59, 73, 80, 82, 83, 90

Fosdick, Raymond, 85, 86, 88, 91, 96

Freud, Sigmund. See psychoanalysis

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 129

Gandhi, Mahatma, 113–14

Gilded Age, 55

Great Depression, 91–93

Hall of Fame for Great Americans, 109–11, 118

Harding, Walter, Days of Henry Thoreau, 3, 6–7, 95, 110–11, 125, 157

Henley, Don, 169

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 3–4, 8, 9, 12, 26, 36, 40–41, 62, 66, 70, 71

hippies, 117–20

homesteading movement, 130–31

individualism, 34, 116

Industrial Revolution, 33–34, 55, 89, 90

Japp, Alexander Hay, Thoreau: His Life and Aims, 46–47

Jefferies, Richard, 61

Jones, Howard Mumford, 99, 111, 146

Kalman, David, 123, 124

Katahdin, 147–49

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 114

Kirkham, Stanton, 58, 72, 78

Krutch, Joseph Wood, 96, 100–101, 120, 129–30, 150, 156, 158

Lawrence, Jerome, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, 114

Lear, Linda, 139

Leary, Lewis, 31, 107, 109, 111, 121, 131

Lee, Robert E., The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, 114

Lowell, James Russell, 2, 15, 16–17, 29–31, 37, 40–41, 59, 60, 69, 110

Lynd, Stoughton, Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism, 115–16, 121

Lytle, Mark Hamilton, 140, 165

Macy, John, 60, 68, 93, 98

Maine Woods, The, 15–16, 147–49, 150–51, 153

Matthiessen, Francis O., 94, 99, 122, 127

Maynard, Barksdale, 43, 53, 63

McAleer, John J., 111, 152

McCarthy hearings, 96–97, 113

McGregor, Robert Kuhn, 12–13

McIntosh, James, 128, 149

McKibben, Bill, 162

Miller, Perry, Consciousness in Concord, 123–25, 126, 144

Montrie, Chad, 164

Muir, John, 73–77

Mumford, Lewis, 4, 89–90

Murie, Olaus, 133–34, 149

Nash, Roderick, 147

nature, literary depictions, 4–5, 10, 27, 32–33, 36–37, 57–67, 71–73, 77–80, 84, 102–4, 146–47, 157

Nearing, Helen and Scott, 130–31

Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The, 114–15

Oelschlaeger, Max, 165

outdoor recreation, 99–100

Paul, Sherman, 99, 104–5, 115

Peattie, Donald Culross, 105–6

Porter, Eliot, In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World, 155–57

posthumous publications, 36, 48–49, 67–68

psychoanalysis, 122–24, 126–28

religion. See Thoreau, Henry David: religious views

reviews. See Thoreau, Henry David: book reviews

Richardson, R. D., 4, 12, 148, 165

romanticism, 10–11

Salomon, Louis, 108

Salt, Henry S., Life of Thoreau, 42, 51, 52–53, 68

Sanborn, Franklin, Henry D. Thoreau and Personality of Thoreau, 52, 53

Sattelmeyer, Robert, 17, 36, 86, 90

Schulz, Kathryn, 160–61, 170

Scudder, Townsend, 6, 8, 15, 115

Sewall, Ellen, 6–7, 124, 125

Shepard, Odell, 91, 126

Sherwood, Mary, 119, 144

Skinner, B. F., Walden II, 152

Slater, Philip, Pursuit of Loneliness, 151–52

slavery. See abolitionism

Sleepy Hollow. See Concord

social criticism, 86–90, 93

socialism, 47, 92–93

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 31–32

Stoller, Leo, 125, 135–36, 137, 149, 167

Teale, Edwin Way, 100, 101–2, 104, 143

Thompson, Maurice, 61, 72, 83

Thoreau, Cynthia Dunbar (mother), 5

Thoreau, Henry David: biographies of, 9, 11–13, 16, 27, 38–39, 46–48, 51–53, 90–91, 110–11, 122, 127, 128, 136; book reviews, 49–50, 68, 80–82, 107; British reception of, 36–37; contemporary opinions of, 13–15, 16–17, 18–20, 25–26; death, 22–23, 27; friends, 8–9; journal, 13, 48–51, 67–68, 80–81, 91, 136; lectures and lecturing, 14–15, 22; religious views, 26, 30, 54; youth, 5–7

Thoreau, John (brother), 6

Thoreau, John (father), 5–6

Thoreau, Sophia (sister), 23, 29, 36, 44, 49, 67

Thoreau Society, 110–11, 143

Torrey, Bradford, 64, 65, 67, 68, 78, 80

transcendentalism, 10–11, 33

Udall, Stewart, 136, 154

Unitarianism, 11, 31

Uphaus, Willard, 113, 131

Walden (book), 3, 13, 18–20, 27, 37, 85–86, 94–95, 98–99, 107–8, 117–18, 129–32, 134, 157

Walden Pond, 11–12, 25–26, 29, 43–44, 56–57, 142–45

“Walking” (essay), 155

Walls, Laura Dassow, 16, 22, 157

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 73

Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A, 12, 16–17, 30, 31, 146

wilderness preservation. See environmental movement

World War II, 94–96

Worster, Donald, 141, 163, 168–69

Wright, Mabel Osgood, 65, 66–67

Yankee in Canada, A, 35

Zahniser, Howard, 91, 146, 157