Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 1 - Journal, Volume 1: 1837-1844.

This first volume of the Journal covers the early years of Thoreau's rapid intellectual and artistic growth. The Journal reflects his reading, travels, and contacts with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other Transcendentalists. With characteristic reticence, Thoreau mentions only a few episodes in his emotional history: an ill-fated romance, the death of his elder brother, and an unhappy sojourn on Staten Island, where he tried to write for New York periodicals. Parts of Thoreau's Journal have been published, but always with large omissions of text and with considerable grooming of its erratic manuscript style. This edition presents the entire surviving manuscript in a text preserving Thoreau's words as he originally wrote them.

Summary

Covers the early years of Thoreau's intellectual and artistic growth. This title reflects his reading, travels, and contacts with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other Transcendentalists.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Nancy Craig Simmons, Elizabeth Hall Thoreau, Henry Thoreau, Henry D. Thoreau
• Assisted by: Thomas Blanding (Editor), Blanding Thomas (Editor), John C. Broderick (Editor), Elizabeth Howarth (Editor), William Howarth (Editor), William L. Howarth (Editor), Howarth William L. (Editor), Robert Sattelmeyer (Editor), Sattelmeyer Robert (Editor), Elizabeth Witherell (Editor), Elizabeth Hall Witherell (Editor), Henry David Witherell (Editor), Witherell Elizabeth Hall (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.1981
• EAN: 9780691063614
• ISBN: 978-0-691-06361-4
• No. of pages: 716
• Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau; Journal, 1837-1844; Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA