Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings

This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the texts ofWalden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking, andWild Apples. All are annotated for student readers. Also included are related selections from Thoreau'sJournal. "Reviews and Posthumous Assessments" includes reactions to Thoreau and his writing by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, and James Burroughs, among others. "Recent Criticism" presents the best critical writing on the texts in this volume. F. O Matthiessen, E. B. White, Leo Marx, Stanley Cavell, Barbara Johnson, Laura Dassow Walls, Laurence Buell, Neill Matheson, and William Rossi are among the nineteen contributors. About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of theNorton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

Map of Thoreau's Concord
The Texts of Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
Walden	p. 5
Map of Walden Pond	p. 193
Textual Appendix to Walden	p. 225
Other Writings
Civil Disobedience	p. 227
Slavery in Massachusetts	p. 247
Walking	p. 260
Wild Apples	p. 288
Journal
The Journal and Walden	p. 313
Selections from the Journal, 1845-54	p. 319
Reviews and Posthumous Assessments
Review of Walden	p. 380
Review of Walden	p. 381
Review of Walden	p. 382
Review of Walden	p. 383
A Yankee Diogenes	p. 384
Review of Walden	p. 387
Review of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden	p. 388
Review of Walden	p. 390
Review of Excursions	p. 391
Review of Excursions	p. 392
Review of Excursions	p. 393
Review of A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers	p. 393
Review of A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers	p. 394
Thoreau	p. 394
Thoreau	p. 410
Another Word on Thoreau	p. 418
Modern Criticism
Walden
Walden: Craftsmanship vs. Technique	p. 433
Walden - 1954	p. 442
Walden's Transcendental Pastoral Design	p. 450
Captivity and Despair in Walden and "Civil Disobedience"	p. 465
A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove: Obscurity in Walden	p. 482
The Remaking of Walden	p. 489
The Worlding of Walden	p. 507
Walden as Feminist Manifesto	p. 521
Thoreau and the Natural Environment	p. 527
"Civil Disobedience" and "Slavery in Massachusetts"
Thoreau's Politics of the Upright Man	p. 544
Thoreau's Narrative Art in "Civil Disobedience"	p. 556
The Price of Privilege: "Civil Disobedience" at 150	p. 564
Quiet War with the State: Henry Thoreau and Civil Disobedience	p. 572
Fourth of July	p. 586
"Walking" and "Wild Apples"
"The Limits of an Afternoon Walk": Coleridgean Polarity in Thoreau's "Walking"	p. 596
Thoreau's Gramatica Parda: Conjugating Race and Nature	p. 613
The Language of Prophecy: Thoreau's "Wild Apples"	p. 632
Capitalism and Community in Walden and Wild Fruits	p. 645
Henry D. Thoreau: A Chronology	p. 661
Selected Bibliography	p. 667
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