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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
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