Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon

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297 Acts, book of, 116 Adams, Henry, 26 Admetus, 91, 100n26 aesthetics, 51; ecological and environmental , 24, 58, 132; postmodern, 134 Agassiz, Louis, 78, 193, 203 Aids to Reflection (Coleridge), 109–10 Alcott, Bronson, 113, 115, 116, 119 Alcott, Louisa May, 23 Alger, William Rounseville, 158 alienation, 147, 153, 186 America, idealizations of, 23, 32–33, 36 animality, 258; in humans, 252, 265–68, 273 animals, 249–73 passim; animal communication , translation of, 258–61, 263–64n12; cognitive empathy with, 255, 260; as “companions” (coconstituents ), 256; human-animal opposition, 249–50, 266; “neighborhood” trope, 249, 250, 254, 261; primal language of, 266, 268–71 Anthon, Charles, 142 anthropocentrism and antianthropocentrism , 73, 250–51 anthropomorphism, 249, 261; critical, 254, 255–56, 258; versus theriomorphism , 251–52; tropes, 250, 253 antimodernity and antimodernism, 43–55 passim, 69–72 passim, 97–98; ambivalence of hdt’s, 44, 45; of Journal , 232n9 Apollo, 91, 100n26 apple(s), 82, 83, 85; as symbol of commodification , 88, 99n16; as symbol of sinful knowledge, 92; taste of, 89, 214 Aristotle, 117; concept of character of, 128; and hdt, 126–36 passim; Poetics, 127–28 Association for the Advancement of Science , 48 Atlantic (magazine), 63 Atlantic shore, 37 Auburn Dam site (Calif.), 239 Austin, Mary, 59 autopoiesis, 177–78 “Autumnal Tints” (hdt), 57, 62–68 passim , 173–77 passim, 184–85, 206 Bacon, Francis, 12, 115, 135, 178–80, 181, 182 Bancroft, George, 36, 125n14 barberries, 82–83, 86 Barthes, Roland, 147 Bartol, Cyrus, 109 Note: Walden and the Journal, massively cited in this volume, have no index entries of their own. See specific topics (e.g., Journal writing, hdt’s; loon, at Walden Pond, etc.). Index 298 index Bartram, William, 203 Bauman, Zygmunt, 239 being, 105–25 passim, 174, 180; as “the great explainer” (hdt), 105, 119; grounds of, 107; and knowing, 174, 180, 185; and prose style, 114–15 “Being and Seeming” (R. W. Emerson), 115 Bekoff, Marc, 254–55, 261 Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, 119 Benjamin, Walter, 65, 258–59 Bennett, Michael, 238 Benson, Eugene, 158 Bentham, Jeremy, 253 Berger, Michael Benjamin, 187 Bhaskar, Roy, 107, 112, 118, 124n9, 124–25n12 Bickman, Martin, 248, biocentrism, 74, 250. See also aesthetics; ecology, ecocentrism, and ecocriticism ; environmentalism biosemiotics, 177 bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder, 83–84 Blake, Harrison G. O., 100n26, 121, 122, 165 Blood, Perez, 86, 91 Boehme, Jakob, 174 book(s), 267; children’s, 143, 145; heroic, 71; ideal, 173; logbook, importance of, 61–62; of nature, 173, 175, 183–84, 204, 212, 230, 265, 268, 271–72; “rhizomatic ,” 42n14; of specimens, 64, 173–74; vascular, 30 Boston Society of Natural History, 145 Boston Transcript, 158 botany and botanizing, 63, 74, 90, 91, 95–96, 97, 117, 204, 205, 210 Bowen, Francis, 112 Brownson, Orestes, 108, 112, 113–14, 122–23n5, 123n8, 125n14 Buell, Lawrence, 59, 63, 110, 130; The Environmental Imagination, 198, 233n12, 249 Bulfinch, Thomas, 140, 145; Bulfinch’s Mythology, 140–41 Bushman, Richard L., 141 business, 46, 87, 165, 238; and language, 52; “private,” hdt’s, 37, 72; Thoreau family’s, 90, 91. See also capitalism; commerce and commodification Cafaro, Philip, 254, 257, 261 Cameron, Sharon, 120, 125, 192, 219, 222 Canada, 35 Cape Cod (hdt), 21, 31–39 passim, 158; death and drowning themes in, 21, 33–35, 36–37, 38 Cape Cod (Mass.), 24, 33–36, 38, 118 capitalism, 25–26, 46–47, 63–64, 241, 244. See also business; commerce and commodification Capper, Charles, 4 Carlyle, Thomas, 135, 139; character of, as integral to his writings, 129; Sartor Resartus, 139 Carson, Rachel, 243 Casado da Rocha, Antonio, 168 Cavell, Stanley, 147, 164, 203 Chambers, Robert, 78 Champollion, Jean-François, 175 Channing, Ellery (hdt’s friend), 90 Channing, William Ellery, 116, 119 Channing, William Henry, 111, 122–23n5 Char, René, 229 character, as imbuing author’s writing, 127, 129 index 299 Christianity, 115, 123–24n8, 183; Adam and Eve’s fall, 92; Calvinism, 147; Catholicism , 26, 38; challenged by Darwinism , 72–73, 80; Christian Examiner, 115; God of, 130; morality of, 249, 261; natural theology, 230, 249; and nature, 249, 261; as ontology (rational religion ), 110, 113; versus pantheism, 240; permanence of, for Transcendentalists, 114; Satan, 87, 92; values of, corrupted by commerce, 246–47; vindicated by Coleridge and Marsh, 109–10. See also religion; spiritual awareness Christie, John Aldrich, 22, 24 circle imagery, 76, 85–88, 96; elliptical and parabolic orbits, 39 Clarke, James Freeman, 116, 117, 119...