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title	:	Thoreau in the Human Community
author	:	Moller, Mary Elkins.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870232932
print isbn13	:	9780870232930
ebook isbn13	:	9780585083940
language	:	English
subject	Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862, Humanism in literature, Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
publication date	:	1980
lcc	:	PS3053.M6eb
ddc	:	818/.3/09
subject	:	Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862, Humanism in literature, Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Page iii Thoreau in the Human Community Mary Elkins Moller The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, 1980

Page iv Copyright 1980 by The University of Massachusetts Press. All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 79-22549 ISBN 0-87023-293-2 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. A few portions of this book have appeared earlier: parts of chapters 2 and 4, with additional material, in "Thoreau, Womankind and Sexuality," and a somewhat different and fuller version of chapter 9 (under the title, " 'You Must First Have Lived' "), in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 22 (third quarter), 1976, and vol. 23 (fourth quarter), 1977 respectively. Acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint copy-righted material: Houghton Mifflin Company, for material from Perry Miller, Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto "Lost Journal," 184041, Together with Notes and a Commentary (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958). Copyright 1958 by Perry Miller. All rights reserved. Random House, Inc., for selections from William Faulkner, "The Bear," in Go Down, Moses (New York: Random House, 1942). Copyright, 1940, 1941, 1942, by William Faulkner, Copyright, 1942, by The Curtis Publishing Company.

Page v This book is dedicated to Cliff, David, Cathy, and Jon.

Page vii Acknowledgments My Awareness of Thoreau came first from my father, Frederick Elkins, a lover of nature and of Walden; but the awareness was not built upon for a number of years, not "improved," as Thoreau would say, until in graduate school at Harvard I moved from a preoccupation with British literature toward an ever-increasing interest in the literature of my own country, and especially that of my adoptive region of New England. This general interest was fed by courses with Kenneth Murdock, Perry Miller, Alfred Kazin, Edward Carter, and Reuben Brower, and by F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. It was Perry Miller, with whom I have had to quarrel in this book, who after allin addition to nurturing the overall concern with American studiesprompted me to investigate, and then to explore deeply, Thoreau's vast and fascinating Journal. When finally I got around to writing on Thoreau, I was fortunate in having the counsel and encouragement of Kenneth Lynn and of Joel Porte. And I have profited from conversations with Patrick Quinn of Wellesley College. The book has been read, and extremely useful suggestions have been made, by Professors Walter Harding and Alexander Kern, as well as by readers and staff members at the University of Massachusetts Press. I would especially like to thank Ms. Leone Stein, Director of the Press, for helpful commentary and suggestions. Megan Marshall has worked with me, skillfully and faithfully, as editorial assistant and reader-sounding-board, as has Lyn Oliver also. And thanks are due to Jeane Morris for patient and skilled deciphering and typing.

Page viii The dedication records a long-standing and continuing debt of gratitude, to my husband and childrennot always utterly patient with my preoccupations and complaints, but ultimately supportive, and much beloved. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS SEPTEMBER 1979

Page ix Contents Introduction xi One. Thoreau, le Misanthrope 1 1. "Man, man is the devil" 1 2. "The mass of men" 10 Two. Friendship and Love: Ideal and Failure 19 1. The ideal, in A Week and in the Journal 19 2. Failure: the Emersons, and self-scrutiny 24 Three. Seven Friendships 39 1. Continuing relation to the Emersons; Ellery Channing 39 2. Blake, and Alcott

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