Index
Acadia (Park, Maine)
118
Achaeans
266
Achilles
267f.
Adair, James, The History of the American Indians
154
Adam (“American”)
xxii, 189
(Old Testament)
272, 275
A Different Drummer (Kelley, William Melvin)
xx, xxii, 181-198 passim
Adorno, Theodor W.
207
Aeolian harp (wind over telegraph wire)
44, 57, 59
Aeolus
15
African American experience
166f.
African American “literary ghetto”
192
African American literature
188f.
African American nature writing
176
Agassiz, Louis
32f., 275
Agriculture
13, 19, 35, 37, 97, 102f., 136
AIDS
260
Ailes, Roger
241
Alaimo, Stacy
4
Alcott, Bronson
145, 157f.
Alcyone
17
Algonquian culture
34, 152
Algonquin
136, 146
Allen, Grant
156
Amazon rainforest
269
American Association for the Advancement of Science
34
American democracy
235f.
American literary culture
197
American politics
235
American public discourse
235f.
Amsterdam News
185
Anderson, Charles R.
29
Anderson, Douglas
271
Anderson, Rasmus Bjørn
219, 223
Anglosaxon culture
220, 224f.
Antæus
166
Anthropocene
35, 94, 106, 261, 276
Anthropocentrism
82, 212, 271
Antiqvitates Americanæ …
219, 223f.
Antiquities Act
119ff.
Apess, William (Pequot minister)
132
Apollodorus
15
Appalachecola
158
Appalachians
114, 166
“Apprentice, The” (TV show)
235
Aquarius (star sign)
241
AR-15 (assault rifle)
241
Aral Sea
245
Arendt, Hannah
91
Arkansas
191
Arsić, Branka
xxii, 262
Assabet River
8f., 11, 37
Athena
266f., 277
Athens
154
Atlantic, The
107
Atlantis
18
Attean, Joe
xix, 107, 109, 130, 133, 142, 155
Attenborough, Keith (et al.)
60
ATV (all-terrain vehicle)
241
Audubon, John James
7f., 11, 110, 287
Audubon Society
58
Augé, Marc
103
Augusta (Georgia)
191
Austin, Phyllis
117
Australian(s)
231, 269
Ayers, Donald M.
15
Badu, Erykah
181
Baja California
231
Balthrop-Lewis, Alda
169
Bancroft, George, History of the United States
129
Bangor (Maine)
107
Bangor Daily News
110
Barnum, P.T.
241
Bartram, William
190
Baxter, Percival
110f., 114
Baxter State Park
114, 116
Baym, Nina
32, 249f.
Bedford (bells of)
63
Bellin, Joshua David
xiv, 35, 128, 131
Benediktsson, Einar
221
Benson, Adolph B.
217
Benton, Myron
157
Berger, Michael
36
Bernard of Clairvaux
273
Bewick, Thomas
16
Bhagavad-Geeta, the
272
Bible & Biblical
86, 189, 272-276
Bible-Belt, the
233
Big Money (term for select larger corporations)
233
Billerica (dam)
13, 37, 254 (town), 97
Birdsong
xvii, 41, 44, 60f., 63, 288
Bishop Percy
223
Black Arts Movement
192
Black Hawk’s War
128
Black Lives Matter
ix-x, 181, 185, 260f.
Black Power Movement
193
Blake, H.G.O.
80f., 89, 173f., 238, 279
Bloch, Ernst
202
Blue Ridge Mountains (North Carolina)
165
Boccaccio, Giovanni
218, 222
Boehme, Jacob
272
Bolsonaro, Jair
269
Bonner, Willard H.
230
Book of Nature (concept and faith)
273, 278
Boston
8, 14, 19, 137, 171
Boston Society for Natural History
32
Bradshaw, Bennet
197
Brann, Louis
114
Brazil
269
Brewster, Ralph O.
114
Bridgman, Richard
xiii
Brinkley, Douglas
120
British Isles, 19th-century academic interest in ancient
224
Brody, David
238
Brooks, Charles
16
Brown, John
xi, xiv, 173
Brown, Lucy Jackson
178
Brown, Michael
260
Bryant, William Cullen
69, 72
Buckley, William F. Jr.
203
Buell, Lawrence, The Environmental Imagination
28, 30f., 177, 209
Burbick, Joan
100
Burke, Edmund
72ff., 83, 85
Burke, Kenneth
235
Burns, Anthony
8f., 171, 173
Burris (narrator of Skinner’s Walden Two)
203
Burroughs, John
28, 146, 238
Burt’s Bees
117f.
Butler, Judith
261
Cafaro, Philip
141f., 152ff.
Cage, John
52
Caliban, Tucker
186-191, 196ff.
California
105, 128, 130, 166, 237
California Gold Rush
130
California Indians, genocide of
128
Cameron, Kenneth Walter
16
Cameron, Sharon
31
Canonization (Thoreau’s)
28
Cape Cod (peninsula)
10, 14, 21, 85f., 132, 155
Capitalism
xiv, 28, 134, 137, 142, 204, 269
Carlyle, Thomas
xxi, 217, 220, 225-228
Carnegie, Dale (self-help guru)
241
Carpaccio, Vittore
17
Carter, Christopher
166f.
Cascade Mountains (Oregon)
174
Case, Kristen
xv, xxii, 38, 281
Catholic faith
xxi
Catholics
(
Roman Catholics
)217, 222
Catlin, George
109
Cavell, Stanley
30
Ceyx
17
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
106
Channing, William Ellery
xxii, 14, 27, 139, 156f., 249, 253
Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist
27, 147
Charlemagne
222
Chaucer, Geoffrey
218, 222
Chernobyl
269
Cherokee Trails of Tears
128
Chesuncook Lake
107, 109
Chicago
188
Chicago World’s Fair 1893
223
Chickasaw Trails of Tears
128
Child, Lydia Maria
129
China
277
Choctaw Trails of Tears
128
Chow, Rey
219
Christianity
71, 148, 153, 274f.
Church, Frederick
110
Civil Rights Movement
185, 197
Civil rights protests
x, 29
counter-protests
268
Civil War, the
145, 163
Clapper, Ronald Earl
87
Clements, Frederic
34
Climate change (modern)
268
Climate change (Thoreau and)
39
Cohasset
14, 87
Cole, Thomas
71ff.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
272
Columbus, Christopher
222f.
Commerce
(
Trade
)13f., 19
Concord (Mass.), flora & botany
32, 155
landscape
10, 20, 59, 76, 84, 96, 104, 141, 187, 197f., 275f., 284
Mill-dam
76
Concord School
148
soundscape
53
town
xvii, 41, 43, 116, 137, 145, 165f., 169, 258
Concord Free Public Library
25, 254
Concord River
xvi, 3, 13, 22, 25, 37f., 39, 77, 96f., 100
Connecticut
116
Copway, George, Original History of the Ojibway Nation
131
Cosmos
106, 207, 244
COVID-19 & Coronavirus
ix, xi, 277
Cow, lowing of
56
painted
78
fenced-in and escaping
88
putting down
190
Creationist theory
33
Creek Trails of Tears
128
Crickets, song of
41f., 47ff., 54ff., 61, 66
Crime
194, 233, 238
“Cripping”
257
Crisis (environmental, societal & individual)
ix-xi, xiii-xxiii passim, 3ff., 91, 100, 177, 225, 245, 249, 262, 265f., 268, 271, 274, 276ff., 284
Cronon, William
35, 103, 163
Crusades, the
222
Culture(s), as social phenomenon
xiv, 93f., 96ff., 240
precontact
xvi, 34
white settler
xix, 103, 105, 159, 283
Native American
xix, 34f., 122, 127-143 passim, 158, 160, 162, 283
dependent on agriculture
20
dominant
29f., 156, 183, 219f., 261
as Bildung
95
as related to nature
97ff., 123f., 250, 257
resilience of
98
reborn
105
value of acquainting oneself with other
160
consumer
166, 169
harmful
173
African American
181, 187, 194, 197f.
counterculture
191, 194
decrepit
192
popular
193f.
Scandinavian (literary)
219f.
medieval Icelandic
220
Old Norse literary
222
torn between and blending
224, 228
American independence from European
225
German Romantic
227
warrior
228
Cusick, David, History of the Six Nations
131
Dammit, Toby (character of E.A. Poe’s)
244
Danforth, John
101
Dante, Alighieri
218, 222
Darwin, Charles
26, 31ff., 36, 219, 275
Das Kapital (Karl Marx)
270
Dean, Bradley P.
25
Deloria, Philip J., “playing Indian”
128, 146
Democracy
94, 209, 233, 235, 259, 268
Democratic Review
213
Democratic Socialist
242
Denevan, William M.
35
Denmark
218, 226
Depot Field
42
Desynchronization
xviii, 91-106 passim
definition
92
Devil, the
(
Lucifer
)ix, 233, 242, 244
Dickens, Charles
227
Dickinson, Emily
30
Diogenes of Sinope
271
Dionysus
241
Disabilities Studies
252, 257
Disability
xxii, 249, 252
Disease
ix, xv, 128, 244f.
Dispossession (of Native American peoples and cultures)
xix, 123f., 127f., 128, 142f.
Dixon, Melvin
175
DNA
240
Dodge’s Brook
10
Donahue, Brian
20
Douglass, Frederick
172
Dovic, Marijan
219
Dryden, John
265
Du Baut, Pierre
37
DuBois, W.E.B.
185, 192
Dubya (George W. Bush)
235
Duchess County (New York)
157
Duke, David
241
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
35
Dunning-Kruger effect
233
Early Kings of Norway, The (Carlyle, Thomas)
226
Earth First!
109
East (bloc)
269
Echo Wood
65
Edel, Leon
xiii
Edgefield County (South Carolina)
191
Egerton, Frank N.
30
Egils Saga Skalla-Grímssonar (Snorri Sturlusson)
218
Eiriksson, Leif
(
Eriksson, Leif
)xxi, 219, 221-224
Eliade, Mircea
174
Ellis, Cristin
275
Elísson, Guðni
221
Emerson, Edward
148
Emerson, Lidian
178
Emerson, Mary Moody
272f.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and Eulogy for Thoreau
xvi, 4, 27, 70, 242
and Nature
3f., 164, 240, 259
and Norse influence
xxi
and “pond-eye”
54
and “ice-harp”
57
on Thoreau’s style
69f.
appeal for Cherokee Nation
129
meeting Charles Skinner
145
on Thoreau’s heroes
153
on Thoreau’s simplicity
156
on Thoreau’s sympathy with wild nature
157
and the “Transparent Eyeball”
164
letter from Thoreau on young son Waldo’s sudden death
178
cited by R.W.B. Lewis
189
on Snorri Sturlusson
217f.
influenced by Old Norse literature
221
owner of Northern Antiquities
223
influence on Thoreau
272
Emerson, Waldo, death as a child
178
Engels, Friedrich
270, 272
Engholm, Rudy
109
England
20, 224
Epicurean
271
Eriksson, Leif
(
Eiriksson, Leif
)xxi, 219, 221-224
Etzler, J.F.
211ff.
Eurozone
265
Evil(s)
19, 133, 165, 187
Fair Haven Bay
43
Fairhaven Hill
196
Fair Haven Pond
173
Fascism
213, 226, 242
Faulkner, William
184, 191
FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
233
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
272
Finley, James S.
xviii, 20, 120, 185, 204, 281
Finney, Carolyn
168
Fish-creel
139f.
Fleck, Richard F.
108
Flint’s Pond
57
Foreman, Dave
109
Forest (noise of)
59ff.
Foster, Stephen S.
172
Francis, James Eric Jr.
122
Franconia Notch (New Hampshire)
72
Frank Forester’s Field Sports
58
Frazier (character in Skinner’s Walden Two)
201, 206
Freeman, Brister
169
Freeman, Fenda
169
Fugitive Slave Law
8f., 171f.
Fuller, Margaret
129, 221
Gaia
106
Gallagher, Mark
xx, 281
Gandhi, Mohandas
123, 166
Ganges River
78
Garber, Frederick
151
Garner, Eric
260
Garrison, William Lloyd
171
Garvey, Marcus
191
Gender
xiii, 168, 174, 207, 233, 259
Generation Z
x
Genesis, Book of
272
Genette, Gérard
220
Germany, 19th-century academic interest in ancient
224
Giles, Paul
103
Gingrich, Newt
241
Glacier National Park
123
Glacken, Clarence J.
94
God (Christian, explicit or implicit)
3, 71ff., 77, 79, 82f., 85f., 141, 170, 172, 206, 233, 237f., 242, 246, 259, 272, 275
Gods (Ancient Greek; see also specific ref:s)
17, 21, 98, (239)
Gods (Native American; see also specific ref:s)
71, 82
Gods (Old Norse; see also specific ref:s)
226
Gods (Prehistoric)
239
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (on rendering sounds)
53f., 59, 61
Goldman, Emma
ix
GOP (Grand Old Party = U.S. Republican Party)
241
GoPro (camera)
231
Gould, Rebecca Kneale
xx, 282
Gould, Stephen Jay
33
Graham, Harman
6
Grahame, Kenneth
37
Grand Canyon
118, 120
Gravett, Sharon
227
Gray, Asa
32
Great Meadows (Concord, Mass.)
12
Great Migration
188
Great North Woods (Maine)
107, 109, 111, 114
Greece
20, 46, 265
Greek-like man
158
Green (political affiliation)
242
Greenville (Maine)
107
Grief
249-262 passim
Groundnut (Apios tuberosa), Thoreau discovering
134ff.
Guernsey, Frank E.
114
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
234
Guthrie, James
97, 101
Guyot, Arnold
101
Hack, Daniel
188
Hakola, John W.
114
Halberstam, Jack
261
Halcyon days
17f., 21
Halfdan the Black
223
Halink, Simon
219
Hall, Kim Q.
257
Harald Fairhair
223
Harding, Walter
30, 153, 194f.
Harlem (New York)
185, 194f.
Harlem Renaissance
192
Harney, Stafano
261
Harper’s Ferry
xi
Harris, Trudier
198
Harvard Library
32
Harvard College
132, 184ff., 190, 194
Harvey, Samantha C.
227
Hawaii
231
Hawkes, John
185, 190
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
30, 145, 156, 189f.
Hector
267f., 277
Hee, Michell Ye
238
Hegel, G.W.F.
92
Heimskringla (Snorri Sturlusson)
218, 220, 223, 229
Helgason, Jón Karl
219f.
Henderson, Marlies
13
Henry, Alexander
149
Henry David Thoreau National Park (proposed)
110
Henry, George (Maungwudas)
137f.
Hera
17
Herbert, Henry William
58
Herring Pond (Cape Cod)
132
Hesiod
15
Hesperides
18
Hetch Hetchy Valley
108
Higgins, Richard
90, 174
Hitler, Adolf
226
Hoag, Ronald Wesley
xvii, 80, 282
Hoar, Edward
108, 254
Hoar, George Frisbie
146
Hodder, Alan D.
70, 73, 227
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
146, 191
Homer
15, 160, 278
Horse, whinny
58
willful
73
mountain compared to
81
terrain inaccessible to
88
put down
190
dream
229, 234
Trojan
266-270, 288
iron
277
Hotel Attaquin (Cape Cod)
132
Hot Gates, the
(
Thermopylæ
) 266
Houghton Mifflin (publishers of Thoreau)
28f.
Howarth, William L.
31
Howe, Daniel Walker
159
Hudson River School
71, 78
Hughes, Langston
191
Humboldt, Alexander von
32, 104, 131
Humes, Edward
117f.
Hustvedt, Lloyd
219
Hutchinson, Thomas
151
Hyginus
15
Ice-harp
(
Pond ice
) 56f.
Iceland
217-230 passim
Identification (with others)
xx, 157, 181, 198, 235
Identity (personal, ethnic, national)
148, 156, 176, 194, 220ff., 224f.
The Iliad
160, 267, 278
Inbar, Yoel (et al.)
234
Indian Island
109
Indian play
xix, Thoreau’s 127, 145-160 passim
Indian Wars (several mentioned)
128
Ingold, Tim
96
Ingraham, Cato
169
Irish (drowned from the St. John)
18
Ives, Charles
52
Jamaica
194f.
James, Henry
189
Jamieson, Dave
237
Jauss, Hans Robert
219f.
Jennings, Francis
35
Jesuit Relations
131, 136
Jews
138
Jim Crow (segregation)
192
Jiu-jitsu (Japanese system of unarmed combat and training)
242f.
Johnson, Linck C.
77
Johnson, Rochelle L.
xv-xvi, 282f.
Johnson, Samuel
265
Jordheim, Helge
92ff.
Josselyn, John
136
Joyce, James
184, 191
Kaag, John
271
Katahdin, Mount
(
Mount Ktaadn
)xvii, 80, 83ff., 80, 114f.
Katahdin National Park (proposed)
114
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
xviii, 107-124 passim, 110, 122ff.
Katopodis, Christina
xvii, 50ff.
Kellett, Michael
114f.
Kelley, Jesi
198
Kelley, Karen Aiki
185ff., 192, 194, 198
Kelley, Narcissa
85
Kelley, William Melvin, Jr.
181-198 passim
gaining recognition
xx
A Different Drummer (1962)
xx, 181f., 185
Thoreauvian influence and themes of
xx, 186
R.W.B. Lewis and
xx
myth-and-symbol school and
xx
self-positioning as author
191ff.
personal journal with Thoreau quotes
195
Kelley, William Melvin Sr.
185
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne
222
Kemme, Steve
191
Kensington Rune Stone
221
Kimmerer, Robin Wall (Potawatomi)
133
King, Martin Luther
123, 191
Kingfisher (Megaceryle Alcyon et al.)
xvi, 3-22
King Olaf Haraldsson
(
St Olaf
)223
King Philip (Wampanoag)
132, 157
King Philip’s War
142
Kolodny, Annette
221, 224
Kotin, Joshua
xiv, 201f.
Kucich, John J.
xix, 35, 121, 130, 283
Kuhlmann, Hilke
215
Kumar, Krishan
201
Laing, Samuel
223
Lakota
129
Lanham, Drew
165f., 174, 176
L’anse aux Meadows
221
Leaves (pitch of noise)
56
Lebeaux, Richard
148
Lee’s Road (Concord, Mass.)
139
LeGoff, Jacques
97
Lemenager, Stephanie
106
Lemire, Elise, Black Walden
169, 198
Leonidas (Spartan king)
266
Leopold, Aldo
163, 176
Levitas, Ruth
xxi, 201f., 207f., 209f.
Lewis, R.W.B, The American Adam
xx, xxii, 181, 189
Liberal
268
Liberals (U.S. politics)
235
The Liberator
171
Limbaugh, Rush
241
Lincoln (Mass.)
169
Linnaeus, Carl
21
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
129, 221
Loring, Edward G.
172
Lowell, James Russell
189
Lucifer
(
the Devil
)273
Luccarelli, Mark
xviii, 102, 283
Maciver, R.M.
93
MacKaye, Benton
95, 100
MacLeish, Archibald
185ff.
Maine Woods
xix, 10, 73, 85, 100, 102f., 108ff., 114ff., 118, 120, 130
Maine Woods Wilderness National Park (proposal)
109, 115f.
“Make America Great Again,” Trumpian slogan
242
Malachuk, Daniel S.
95
Mallet, Paul Henri
224
Mandell, Daniel
132
Manifest Destiny
213
Mann, Charles C.
35
Mann, Horace
xxii, 249, 253
Mariotti, Shannon
209
Market (ideology, economy and practical node)
134, 166, 169f., 269f., 277
Marlowe, Christopher
22
Marx, Karl
270, 272
Mashpee (Cape Cod)
132
Mashpee Revolt (Cape Cod)
132
Massachusetts (State)
8, 172
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
161, 172
Massachusetts Bay Colony
153
Matthiessen, F.O.
29f., 186
Mazower, Mark
94
McCollum, Jonathan C.
226
McIntosh, James
83
McKenna, Megan F.
43, 47
McKenzie River (Oregon)
174
McMurry, Andrew
xxi-xxii, 284
Meadow rill, sound of
47
Melton, Zachary
221f., 225
Melville, Herman
30, 85, 221f.
Mencken, H.L.
233
Mendel, Gregor
36
Merrimack River
100
Mesa Verde
119
Metzger, Tom (U.S. white supremacist & Klansman)
241
Mexican
238
Mexican War
9, 236
Middleboro Ponds
157
Middlesex County
104
Middlesex Canal
13
Millennials
x
Miller, Daegan
253
Miller, Kevin
118
Miller, Perry
101, 191, 193, 196
Milton, John
203
Minkins, Shadrach
19, 172
Minnesota
253f.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas
260
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
85
Moldenhauer, Joseph J.
70
Molotov cocktail
233
Montealegre, Fernando Z. (et al.)
49
Montgomery, David
20
Moore, Michael
233
Moosehead Lake
107f., 114, 116, 131
Morton, Eugene S.
61
Morton, Samuel
131, 136
Moten, Fred
261
Mount Ararat
21
Mount Ktaadn
(
Katahdin
)xvii, 80, 83ff., 88, 114f.
Mount Washington
80
MSNBC (TV channel)
236
Muir, John
108f.
Muldrow, Georgia Anne
181
“Multiple Use” conservation
116
Mumford, Lewis
95
Musketaquid (river)
37, 136f.
Mussolini, Benito
226
Myerson, Joel
172
Myrmidons
278
Myth (of America)
250
Napoleon
236
Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
232
Nash, Roderick Frazier
109
Nationalism
xiv, 93, 96, 213
National Park Service
111, 119, 122
Native American history
xix, 34f., 121
Native Peoples, dispossession of
123, 162
Natura Naturata vs. Natura Naturans
106
Nature (environmental)
167
Neely, Michelle C.
xxi, 284
Never Never Land (after J.M. Barrie)
234
New Bedford
131, 157
New Caledonian
231
New England
20, 35, 39, 50, 95, 97f., 100, 103, 115f., 128, 130, 132, 136, 138f., 151, 158, 220, 223, 262, 281
New Englanders
204
New Hampshire
115
New York City
188
New York (State)
115
New York Times, the
261
Nicholson, Marjorie Hope
71, 73
Nietzsche, Friedrich
230
Nighthawk quill
56
Noah (Old Testament)
21
Noise
45
Nordic countries, 19th-century academic interest in ancient
224
Norrœna: Anglo-Saxon Classics
225
Northern Antiquities
223
Norway
218, 221, 223, 226
Norwegian
231
Noson, Dennis
xvii, 16, 284
Novak, Barbara
71
Obama, Barack
110, 119, 235
O’Brien, Jean
136
Occom, Samson, “Account of the Montauk Indians”
131
Odin
226
O’Donoghue, Heather
220
Odysseus
266f., 277
O.E.D.
(
Oxford English Dictionary
)75, 185f.
Oelschlaeger, Max
109
Ohio Valley mounds
131
Oikonomia (Greek for household management)
277
Old Icelandic (language)
224f.
Old Icelandic (literature)
225f.
Old Norse Literature
xxi, 217-230 passim, 220
Old Testament
82, 131, 272
Olson, W. Kent
110
Omphalos (Philip Henry Gosse)
275
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Carlyle, Thomas)
226
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
33, 275
Oregon
105
Organic Act
119
Orpheus
98
Osterhammel, Jürgen
92
O’Sullivan, John
213
Otterberg, Henrik
105, 234, 274, 284f.
Outka, Paul
168f.
Ovid
15
Ox cart, sound of
45
Oxford English Dictionary
(
O.E.D.
) 75, 181f.
Pacific Ocean
105, 237
Paddle-boarding, standup
xxi, 231-246 passim
Palm Beach (Florida)
236
Paris (France)
69
Paris Climate Change Agreement (United Nations)
269
Paul, Sherman
29, 95
on Thoreau and sound
50f.
Parkman, Francis
34, 109
Patterson, G.E.
175
Peck, H. Daniel
255, 262
Pedersen, Olaf
273
Pennacook Tribe
98
Penobscot ecological knowledge
121
Penobscot language
108, 121, 138f.
Penobscot River (East Branch)
107, 122
Penobscot River (Headwaters)
114f.
Penobscot River (Main Branch)
122
Penobscot River (West Branch)
108, 122
Penobscot Stories
121
Penobscot Tribe
xix, 82, 98, 109, 122, 137
Peruvian highways, pre-contact
131
Petrarch (Petrarca, Francesco)
218
Petrified Forest National Park
119
Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert
ix-xi, 8, 130, 171, 285
Phillips, Wendell
172
Philadelphia plumb suburb, hausfrau of
235
Pieplow, Nathan
44
Plato
153
Poe, Edgar Allan
221
Pole Brook (Concord)
139
Polis, Joe
xix, 108, 122, 130, 133, 137f., 142, 150ff., 155
Polis, Piel Pole (Newell)
137
Polk, James K.
236
Pomola
82
Pond ice (sound of; Ice-harp
) 56f.
Porter, Ned
117
Posey, Alexander (Creek poet)
146
Prejudice
(
Racism
)160, 182, 184, 204
Primack, Richard B.
xvii, 25f., 38f.
Prose Edda
(
Snorri’s Edda, Snorri Sturluson
)218, 223, 226
Protestant faith
xxi, 222
Puritans
101, 147, 160
Quimby, Roxanne
110, 117f.
Racism
(
Prejudice
)ix-xi, xiv, xix-xx, 5, 33, 134, 160, 161-180 passim, 182ff., 235, 275
Raden, Audrey
xxii, 170, 262
Rafn, Carl Christian
223ff.
Railroad cars (rattle of)
56
Ranalli, Brent
xix-xx, 127, 152, 285
Rankine, Claudia
261
Ray, Sarah Jacquette
250
Reagan, Ronald
241
Reconstruction
188
Reid, Jayne Davidson
17
Republican (U.S. politics)
119, 233
Reynolds, David S.
183
Reynolds, Larry S.
152, 228f.
RESTORE: The North Woods (Maine)
115ff.
Rhine (river)
258
Ricardo, David
269, 272
Richards, John F.
103
Richardson, Robert D. (Jr.)
31f., 36, 109
Ricketson, Daniel
131f., 157
Righter, Robert W.
118
Rig-Veda Sanhitá
272
Robbins, Tony (self-help guru)
241
Robertson, Pat (U.S. conservative TV preacher)
241
Robertson, Phil, (U.S. professional hunter and TV preacher)
241
Roman Catholics
(
Catholics
)222
Rome
20, 69
Roosevelt National Park (proposed)
114
Roosevelt, Theodore
110f., 120
Rorty, Richard
239
Rosenwald, Lawrence W.
259
Rossi, William
32, 262
Rueckert, William
99
St. Francis Indians
154
St. John (shipwrecked brig)
14, 18f., 86f.
St. Olaf
(
King Olaf Haraldsson
)223
Sachem
145ff., 157
Sale, Kirkpatrick
95
Savagism
xiv, xix, 34f., 127-144 passim
Savoy, Lauret, Alien Land Ethic: The Spaces Between
176
Sambides, Nick Jr.
110, 122
Sanborn, Franklin
29, 147f., 157
Sattelmeyer, Robert
xvi-xvii, 21, 26, 49, 274, 285
Thoreau’s Reading
37, 72, 133, 158, 274
Sayen, Jamie
109
Sayre, Robert F.
35, 130, 136, 151
Scandinavian history
217-230 passim
Scandianvian myth and legend
217-230 passim
Scargo Hill (Cape Cod)
88
Schneider, Richard J.
35, 95, 101, 128
Schulz, Kathryn, “Pond Scum”
xiii-xiv, 5, 250f.
on William Melvin Kelley
184
Schyrgens, Jacques
273
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
34, 131, 136
Scottish Enlightenment
146, 160
Scranton, Roy
261
Scruton, Roger
95
Seeber, Pauleena M.
138
Sellars, Richard W.
119
Seminole War, first
128
Separate Saga of St Oláfr, the
218
Sewall, Ellen
xv
Sexism
5, 182
Sexual exploitation
128
Seybold, Ethel
100
Shakespeare, William
22
Shamir, Milette
208
Shanley, J. Lyndon
87
Shattuck, Lemuel, History of the Town of Concord
147
Shavitz, Burt
117f.
Shaw, Philip A.
224
Shklar, Judith
239
Sierra Club, the
108f.
Sigurðsson, Gísli
218
Silent Majority (U.S. politics)
241
Simons, Martha (Wampoanag)
131
Sims, Thomas
19
Skinner, B.F., Walden Two
xxi, 201-207; 210, 214f.
Skinner, Charles M.
145
Slavery
9, 19, 162, 172, 187f., 258
Smith, Adam
269, 272
Smith, Donald B.
138
Smith, Sepit (Wampoanag)
131
Smith, Thomas (Wampoanag)
131
Snipe (sound of flight)
56ff.
Snorri’s Edda
(
Prose Edda, Snorri Sturlusson
)218, 223, 226
Snow, C.P., “two cultures” and
29
Socialism
242, 269
Socrates
265, 277
Solnit, Rebecca, “the Thoreau Problem”
123f.
South Framingham
171f.
Soviet bloc, the
269f.
Sparta
155
Spartans
153f., 266
Spaulding’s Farm (Concord, Mass.)
141
Spence, Mark David
123
Squillace, Mark
120
Squier, Ephraim
131, 136
Starboard Starlite Touring (paddle-board model)
231
Staten Island (New York)
185
Steele, Sheridan
110
Stevenson, Robert Louis
xiii
Stewart, Dugald, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind
xx, 158ff.
Stoics
154
Sturlusson, Snorri
xxi, 217-221, 223-226, 228f., 286
Sublime, the (aesthetic and emotional concept)
xvii-xviii, 69-90 passim; 99, 104, 119f., 168, 177, 179, 230
Sublimity
84; 69-90 passim
Sudbury (town)
97, 254
SUNY Geneseo
194
Supreme Court, the U.S.
120
Sutton (fictional town in W.M. Kelley’s A Different Drummer)
197
Sweden
xiii, 218, 226, 266, 268, 285
Synchronization
xviii, 91ff.
Tahatawan (Massachuset chief)
147, 157
Tallahatchie River (Mississippi)
175
Taylor, Dorceta E.
119
Terror
xiv, 71f., 75, 174, 233
Terrorism
xiv
Thatcher, George
107
Thailand
231
Thermopylæ
(
Hot Gates
)266
Thespians
266
Thor
226
Thoreau, Helen
xv
Thoreau, Henry David, Comment on/relating to:
Aboriginal Past and Future
140ff.
Acoustics
xvii, 6-8; 41-66 passim
Americanness
191f.
Birds
(
individual species
)3-22 passim
Carlyle, Thomas
225f.
Character formation
156ff., 169, 206
Civilization
(
Culture
)19ff.
Correspondence (Transcendental)
70, 78, 80, 83, 89, 100, 106, 274
Cost (concept of)
270
Creativity
99, 180
Crisis, personal
ix, xv, xviii, 177, 262, 265
in national character
91, 100
humorous
214
as natural phenomenon/phase
266, 271, 276, 278
Culture
(
Civilization
)19ff.
Death
87, 89, 170, 177f., 257
Despair
173
Desperation (reinterpreted)
256f.
Diet
136f., 206
Ecstasy
73f., 259
Ethics (virtue)
152ff.
Extra-vagance
(
Sublime aesthetics
)69-90 passim, 70, 88
Fire (causing)
196f.
Fishing
16, 79, 83f., 136, 139, 153, 238, 283
Foraging (for tubers, nuts, berries)
27, 134ff., 139, 141, 260
Freedom
9, 19, 171
Friendship
256
Goethe
54
Golden Age
(
Utopia
)207, 214
Government
8, 10, 242
Greek myth
46, 82
Grief
xv-xvi, xxii, 6, 262
Hermit image
xv, 235
Heroism (‘manliness’, courage)
152
Hunting
9, 35, 38, 123, 136, 142, 153, 157
Hydrology
37ff.
Imagination
6, 18, 46, 53, 65, 77, 96, 124, 146, 160, 178, 204, 209, 212f., 228
Indian dispossession
142f.
“Indian play”
xix; 145-160 passim
“Indian problem”
127, 142f.
“Indian wisdom”
127
Indigeneity
134, 140f.
Industrialization
xviii
Intimacy with animals
4
Knowledge
25, 32, 35, 95ff., 110, 128, 132f., 138f., 141f., 155, 157, 195, 237, 249
Language, Indian versus English
138
Liberty
(
Freedom
)9, 19, 270
Listening
41-66 passim, 48f., 62f.
Loss
179, 257, 262
Materialism
171, 205
Modernity
xviii
Mourning
(
Grief
)xv-xvi, xxii, 6
Native Americans
(
entries under “Indian” above
)35, 133
Nature
xi, 4f., 270
Nature versus culture
95
Noise
(
Acoustics
)41-66 passim
Nordic influences
xxi, 222ff.
Paradox
242
Personal independence
153
Poverty, voluntary and inflicted
128, 184, 194
Private life (on its own terms, and as related to public life)
xxi, 28f., 87, 120, 151, 173, 201f., 208, 214, 261
Private property
19f., 116, 236
Race
xix-xx, 161-180 passim, 188
Realometer
240f., 243,
Reception
29ff.
Reputation
(
Reception
)
Rivers
(
Hydrology
)
Sabbath (natural)
76ff., 84
Savagism
xix
etymology “savage”
105
Thoreau’s own
127ff., 133f.
Science
xvi-xvii, 25-40 passim, 138
Seasonality
10, 255
Simplicity
153, 170, 240
Slavery
170
Sound
(
Acoustics
)41-66 passim
Stoicism/self-mastery
153f.
Sublime aesthetics
(
Extra-vagance
)xvii; 69-90 passim
Sympathy
154f.
Taciturnity
155
Teaching
xi
Time/Temporality
xviii, 91-106 passim, 255
Transcendentalism
89, 137, 179
Truth
159, 239f.
Utopia
(
Golden Age
) xxi; 201-215 passim
Virtue(s)
xx; 152ff.
Vulnerability
xxii, 249-262 passim
White water-lily passage in Walden
176ff., 209f.
Whiteness
174
White privilege/supremacy
xx, 164f., 171, 179, 187
Wilderness
xviii, 104
Wildness
104
Work (on nature of true versus false or misguided)
99, 171, 204f., 214, 270f.
Thoreau, Henry David, Works:
“The Allegash and East Branch”
84, 108, 111, 121f., 137f.
“A Plea for Captain John Brown”
xi, 171, 207f.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
xviii, 13, 19, 21f., 27, 55, 76ff., 85, 91, 94ff., 149, 153, 157, 193, 237, 243f., 255
“A Winter Walk”
49f., 274
“The Bean-Field” (separate printing)
273
Cape Cod
xvi, 3, 10, 14f., 18f., 21, 85-88, 155
“Chesuncook”
xviii, 75, 82, 104, 107, 109f., 121ff., 137f.
“Civil Disobedience”
(
“Resistance to Civil Government”
) x, xxii, 30, 117, 130, 184, 187, 191, 204, 208, 213, 242, 249f., 252, 258ff.
Correspondence
xvi, 69, 81, 89, 147f., 152f., 157, 173f., 178, 238
Dial poems
49
“Extracts, mostly upon Natural History” (ms.)
15f., 287
“The Dispersion of Seeds”
(
Faith in a Seed
)26, 33, 36, 89
Faith in a Seed
(
“The Dispersion of Seeds”
) 26, 33, 36, 89
Indian Notebooks
xvi, 25, 34f., 128, 130f., 135ff., 143, 151, 154
Journal (in general)
28, 43, 65, 173, 236
Journal 1: 1837-1844
ix; 42, 46ff., 51, 53ff., 57, 62, 64, 69f., 77f., 130, 140, 147f., 154, 230
Journal 2: 1842-1848
xi, 41, 54f., 81f., 84, 88, 150, 154, 158, 170
Journal 3: 1848-1851
19, 42, 49, 53, 58, 65, 74, 136, 153, 159
Journal 4: 1851-1852
7, 49, 58, 71, 229f.
Journal 5: 1852-1853
41f., 49, 58, 75, 90, 149, 151, 278
Journal 6: 1853
7, 58, 276
Journal 7: 1853-1854
12, 57, 153
Journal 8: 1854
x, 9ff.; 48, 59, 66, 149, 285
Kalendar
xvii, 25; 38f., 252f., 255, 257, 260, 262, 281
“Ktaadn”
xvii, 69, 73, 80-85, 88f., 108, 129
“Contact!” passage
80, 82ff., 240
“Life Without Principle”
x, 130, 184, 195
The Maine Woods
xix, 12ff., 75, 80, 82, 84f., 88, 91, 101f., 105, 107ff., 111, 114f., 120-124, 129, 133, 150, 153f., 157, 281, 283
“Natural History of Massachusetts”
133, 179
Online Journal Transcript(s)
7, 10, 12, 42, 76, 81, 130, 132, 138ff., 149ff., 154f., 253, 255f.
“Paradise (To Be) Regained”
211ff.
“Resistance to Civil Government”
(
“Civil Disobedience”
) x, xxii, 30, 117, 130, 184, 187, 191, 204, 208, 213, 242, 249f., 252, 258ff.
“The Service”
193
“Slavery in Massachusetts”
ix, xvi, 3, 9f., 161, 171f., 176, 179, 184, 204, 208f.
“Sublimity”
73, 75, 85ff.
“The Succession of Forest Trees”
34, 36, 276
“Thomas Carlyle and His Works”
225, 227
Walden
xx-xxiii
kingfisher in
12
as canonized
26
natural history of
28
reception as literary & self-referential masterpiece
29f.
Thoreau’s imagined decline after
30, 59
seven drafts of
30
secure position as canonized
40
increasing interest & appreciation of later texts
40, 137, 143
interpretation of sound and acoustics
50ff.
bell-ringing of Bedford in
63
deliberate contradictions, exaggerations, paradoxes & multiple entendres of
70
“extra-vagance” challenging the limits of language
70, 86, 242, 251
mild sublime passages of
78f.
narrator’s communion with mild & wild sublime
79f., 86f.
death as portrayed in
87f.
impact related to The Maine Woods
109f.
critique of materialism in
130, 153
foraging nuts and berries as alternative economy in
134f.
resuscitation of vanishing indigeneity through local wild diet in
135
crow returning corn seed in
151
advocating simplicity in
153, 155, 159
perceived Indian connections of
157f.
devotion to truth in
159
whiteness and privilege in
161-180 passim
how to contextualize in view of racism today
161-180 passim
influence on William Melvin Kelley & his A Different Drummer
181-198 passim
version of utopia in, and influence on B.F. Skinner’s Walden Two
201-215 passim
perceived influence of Thomas Carlyle in
227
gross feeders satirized in
232
multi-layered meanings in
234
bloody-mindedness of
238
loon-chase in
240
propagating, along with “Civil Disobedience,” image of Thoreau as self-reliant and isolationist
250f.
sneering tone of
251f., 257
the late Journal and Kalendar offering correctives to the ardent stoicism of
252ff., 262
narrator’s muted vulnerability in
262
versions of crisis in
266, 271, 277
human and ant wars in
267, 278
unique economy of
269ff.
advocating protest and action in times of crisis
278f.
Walden, specific chapters:
“Economy”
153, 155, 159, 163, 166, 169f., 183, 188, 192, 204f., 210, 213, 240, 242, 251, 257, 270f., 277
“Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”
90, 168, 182, 196f.
“Reading”
209, 213f., 278
“Sounds”
50, 59, 63, 277
“Solitude”
79, 174, 262
“The Bean-Field”
166, 228, 238, 267, 273
“The Village”
254
“The Ponds”
12, 78f., 169, 185
“Higher Laws”
232
“Brute Neighbors”
28, 240, 278
“House-Warming”
134f., 214
“Former Inhabitants, and Winter Visitors”
169f.
“Spring”
56, 86f., 206, 210, 266
Conclusion”
70, 88, 159, 182, 193, 206f., 213
“Walking”
18ff., 75, 80, 88, 105, 109, 150f., 168
“Wild Apples”
28
allusion
237
“Wild Fruits”
26, 39, 137
Thoreau Institute
194
Thoreau, John … death of
ix, 55, 87, 149, 165, 170, 177ff., 262
Thoreau’s “conversion disorder” upon John’s death
177
as Henry’s childhood playmate
147
Thoreau, Sophia
25
Thorgeirsson, Bergur
xxi, 219, 285f.
Thorson, Robert M.
13, 19, 25f., 37f., 253f.
Thurin, Erik Ingvar
217, 221f.
Till, Emmett
175
Titon, Jeff Todd
50f.
Tobias, Michael C.
117
Tolstoy, Leo
x
Trade
(
Commerce
) 13f., 19., 103, 137, 150, 233, 268
Transcendentalism
21, 89, 137, 227, 239, 244, 281, 285
Transparent Eyeball, Emersonian concept
242, 259
Transtextuality
220
Trojan(s)
266ff., 277, 288
Troy
266ff.
Truth, Sojourner
172
Trump administration (USA 2017-2020)
269
Trump, Donald
xxi-xxii
satirized
231-246 passim
works (ghostwritten): Why We Want Your to Be Rich
237
The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received
237
Think Big and Kick Ass
237
populist rise of
269
Tuberculosis
164, 170
Turner, Frederick Jackson, “frontier thesis”
34, 101
Übermensch (after Nietzsche)
230
Underground Railroad
xiv, 188
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
214
United States (including USA)
xix-xx, xxiii, 10, 27, 32, 35, 37, 105, 109f., 119f., 123, 127ff., 133, 159, 162f., 167f., 171, 182, 193, 197, 214, 222, 224f., 234, 258, 268
University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
xiii, 268, 285
U.S. Constitution, burnt
172
Van Anglen, Kevin P.
100
Van Buren, Martin
129
Vermont
115
Vico, Giambattista
92
Viking “foundation” of America, versus Columbus
222f., 225
Viking “temperament”
221
Vikings
217, 221, 225, 230
Vinland
xxi, 217, 225
Vinland Map, the
221
Violence, environmental and anthropogenic
xiii, xxiii, 3-22 passim, 128, 167, 194, 236, 238, 278
Virgil
15, 160
Virus
268, 277
Vitali, Ali
238
Vulnerability (Thoreau’s and ours)
249-262 passim
Wabanaki People
121
Wagner, Richard
226
Walden Pond
xiv-xv, 8, 10, 33, 41, 43, 64f., 73f., 79, 114, 137, 141, 158, 160, 190, 195, 208, 210, 214, 223, 227, 236, 253, 258, 266, 282, 288
Walden Two (B.F. Skinner)
xxi, 201-207, 210, 214f.
Walden Woods
134, 139, 167ff., 172, 198
Walden Woods Project
172
Walls, Laura Dassow
13f., 19, 30, 32, 48f., 51, 109, 171f., 212
Wampoanag Community
131
Warren, Kenneth W.
192
Washington, Booker T.
185
Washington, D.C.
114, 233
Water lilies
xi, 176ff., 209f.
Watson, Elijah C.
181, 185, 193, 260f.
Wawatam
150
Wawn, Andrew
220
Wayland (town)
97
Webster, Daniel
172
Weimar (phase)
245
West (bloc)
269
West (compass direction & ideal)
18
West Virginia ex-coalminer
235
White, Evelyn C.
174
White Mountains
114
White, Zilpha
169
Whiteness
174
Wilde, Oscar
270
Wilderness
123, 141, 250
Wilderness Society
114
Williams, Isaiah
177f.
Williams, Roger, Key into the Language of America
131, 151
Wilson, E.O.
39f.
Wilson, Richard
17
Wind, sound of in trees
45f.
Whiteness
xx, 169
Whitman, Walt
30
Woke
181f., 193f.
Wolke, Howie
109
Wood, William, New England’s Prospect
151
Wordsworth, William
71ff., 84, 272
Work (as effort or process)
xi, xiv, xvi, xxii, 3-24 passim, 25-28, 30-39 passim, 41, 46, 50, 57, 86-89, 92f., 97, 99, 101, 103, 111, 120, 123, 129ff., 133, 135, 142, 162f., 165f., 171, 178f., 185f., 188, 202-205, 214, 236, 239, 245, 254f., 262, 270, 276
X, Malcolm
191, 194
Xerxes, King of Kings (Persia)
266
Yellow Rocket Shore
11
Yellowstone National Park
116, 119, 123
Yosemite National Park
108, 116, 123
Young, Malcolm Clemens
151
Zebuhr, Laura
50ff.
Zeno of Citium
154
Zeus
17
(Oracle at Dodona)
46
Zion (park)
118