Reimagining Thoreau

Reimagining Thoreau Synthesizes The Interests Of The Intellectual And Psychological Biographer And The Literary Critic In A Reconsideration Of Thoreau''S Literary Career. The Aims Of The Book Are First To Situate Thoreau''S Aims And Achievements As A Writer Within The Context Of His Troubled Relationship To The Microcosm Of Antebellum Concord; Second To Reinterpret Walden As A Temporally Layered Text In Light Of The Successive Drafts Of The Book And The Evidence Of Thoreau''S Journals And Contemporaneous Writings; And Third To Overturn Traditional Views Of Thoreau''S Decline By Offering A New Estimate Of The Post-Walden Writing And Its Place Within His Development.