Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Abbreviations xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I Historical and Theoretical Contexts
6. 1 Pastoral Ideology 31
7. 2 New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities 53
8. 3 Representing the Environment 83
9. 4 Walden’s Environmental Projects 115
10. II Forms of Literary Ecocentrism
11. 5 The Aesthetics of Relinquishment 143
12. 6 Nature’s Personhood 180
13. 7 Nature’s Face, Mind’s Eye: Realizing the Seasons 219
14. 8 Place 252
15. 9 Environmental Apocalypticism 280
16. III Environmental Sainthood
17. 10 The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage 311
18. 11 The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau 339
19. 12 Text as Testament: Reading Walden for the Author 370
20. Appendix: Nature’s Genres: Environmental Nonfiction at the Time of Thoreau’s Emergence 397
21. Notes 425
22. Acknowledgments 563
23. Index 567