Walden and Civil Disobedience
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A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements
Critical of 19th-century America s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods...
Critical of 19th-century America s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods...
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A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movementsCritical of 19th-century America s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts in 1845. Walden, the account of his stay near Walden Pond, conveys at once a naturalist s wonder at the commonplace and a transcendentalist s yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. But Thoreau's embrace of solitude and simplicity did not entail a withdrawal from social and political matters. Civil Disobedience, also included in this volume, expresses his antislavery and antiwar sentiments, and has influenced resistance movements worldwide. Both give rewarding insight into a free-minded, principled and idiosyncratic life.
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PENGUIN CLASSICSWALDEN AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
HENRY DAVID THOREAU was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. Self-described as a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot, Thoreau was known for his extreme individualism, his preference for simple, austere living, and his revolt against the demands of society and government. The several years he spent in a homemade hut, writing and observing nature, resulted in Walden (1854). He was the author of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Civil Disobedience (1849), Excursions (1863), and The Maine Woods (1864). Thoreau died in Concord in 1862.
MICHAEL MEYER teaches American literature at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Several More Lives to Live, Thoreau s Political Reputation in America awarded the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize by the American Studies Association and coauthor, with Walter Harding, of The New Thoreau Handbook. Mr. Meyer has published articles on Thoreau, in a variety of journals.
HENRY DAVID
THOREAU
Walden and
Civil Disobedience
With an Introduction by
MICHAEL MEYER
Introduction
On July 4, 1845, while many Americans waved miniature flags amid the sounds of firecrackers and bells in honor of their country s independence, Henry David Thoreau unceremoniously moved his meager belongings from his parents home in Concord, Massachusetts, to a cabin beside Walden Pond, where he would quietly declare and celebrate his own independence. For Thoreau, the true America was yet to be discovered, and its revolution was still only a promise rather than an achievement. As the patriotic citizens of Concord noisily showed their colors, this native son methodically began weaving the flag of his disposition out of the hopeful green stuff he explored in the woods less than two miles from the center of town. Unlike Walt Whitman, who populated his writings with the divine average,
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Thoreau never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Thoreau demanded a singular relationship with nature that would allow him to leave behind the average and the mundane so that he could discover the liberating divinity within himself and his world. He pledged allegiance not to the Republic but to the individualism for which he stood.
Although Thoreau went to the pond for solitude, he was not entirely alone in spirit. On the day he settled into his ten-by-fifteen-foot cabin, Margaret Fuller, whose Woman in the Nineteenth Century appeared in February of the same year, published an article titled Fourth of July in the New York Daily Tribune. Instead of offering readers the usual holiday panegyric, Fuller chastised Americans for their toleration of slavery and their mean pursuit of wealth. She grieved that they were not as free and independent as their forefathers envisioned. Hearing little cause for hope in the country s popular cry, she searched elsewhere for a voice that could lead a wayward nation back to the narrow path of virtue. According to Fuller, it was in private lives, more than in public measures that the salvation of the country was to be found. She called for individuals who could be shining examples and whose deeply rooted characters . . . cannot be moved by flattery, by fear, even by hope, for they work in faith. Fuller asked if there were any on the threshold of manhood who have not yet chosen the broad way into which the multitude rushes, led by the banner on which, strange to say, the royal Eagle is blazoned, together with the word Expediency? The individuals among her readers were urged to reject that well-traveled road and to pursue the narrow, thorny path where Integrity
Although Thoreau went to the pond for solitude, he was not entirely alone in spirit. On the day he settled into his ten-by-fifteen-foot cabin, Margaret Fuller, whose Woman in the Nineteenth Century appeared in February of the same year, published an article titled Fourth of July in the New York Daily Tribune. Instead of offering readers the usual holiday panegyric, Fuller chastised Americans for their toleration of slavery and their mean pursuit of wealth. She grieved that they were not as free and independent as their forefathers envisioned. Hearing little cause for hope in the country s popular cry, she searched elsewhere for a voice that could lead a wayward nation back to the narrow path of virtue. According to Fuller, it was in private lives, more than in public measures that the salvation of the country was to be found. She called for individuals who could be shining examples and whose deeply rooted characters . . . cannot be moved by flattery, by fear, even by hope, for they work in faith. Fuller asked if there were any on the threshold of manhood who have not yet chosen the broad way into which the multitude rushes, led by the banner on which, strange to say, the royal Eagle is blazoned, together with the word Expediency? The individuals among her readers were urged to reject that well-traveled road and to pursue the narrow, thorny path where Integrity
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Walden and Civil Disobedience “
Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau Introduction by Michael MeyerSuggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
Walden
Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The Bean-Field
The Village
The Ponds
Baker Farm
Higher Laws
Brute Neighbors
House-Warming
Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors
Winter Animals
The Pond in Winter
Spring
Conclusion
"Civil Disobedience"
Notes for Walden
Notes for "Civil Disobedience"
Autoren-Porträt von Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.Kristen Case teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is associate professor of English. She is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Camden House, 2011) and Little Arias, a collection of poems (New Issues Press, 2015). She is coeditor of Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and has published articles on Thoreau, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and William James. She lives inTemple, Maine.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Henry David Thoreau
- 1983, 336 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0140390448
- ISBN-13: 9780140390445
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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