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Author Hodder, Alan D.

Title Thoreau's ecstatic witness / Alan D. Hodder.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 346 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-336) and index.
Summary When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, friends and admirers remembered him as an eccentric man whose outer life was continuously fed by deeper spiritual currents. But scholars have since focused almost exclusively on Thoreau's literary, political, and scientific contributions. This book offers the first in-depth study of Thoreau's religious thought and experience. In it Alan D. Hodder recovers the lost spiritual dimension of the writer's life, revealing a deeply religious man who, despite his rejection of organised religion, possessed a rich inner life, characterised by a sort of personal, experiential, nature-centered, and eclectic spirituality that finds wider expression in America today. At the heart of Thoreau's life were episodes of exhilaration in nature that he commonly referred to as his ecstasies. Hodder explores these representations of ecstasy throughout Thoreau's writings, from the riverside reflections of his first book through Walden and the later journals, when he conceived of his journal writing as a spiritual discipline in itself and a kind of forum in which to cultivate experiences of contemplative non-attachment. In doing so, Hodder restores to our understanding the deeper spiritual dimension of Thoreau's life to which his writings everywhere bear witness.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: A Simple and Hidden Life""; ""One. My Life Was Ecstasy""; ""Two. A Clear and Ancient Harmony""; ""Three. To Redeem This Wasted Time""; ""Four. Born to Be a Pantheist""; ""Five. The Artist of Kouroo""; ""Six. To Speak Somewhere Without Bounds""; ""Seven. A Meteorological Journal of the Mind""; ""Afterword: One World at a Time""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
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Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Religion.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Religion.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Religion.
Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Religion and literature.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hodder, Alan D. Thoreau's ecstatic witness. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001 0300089597 9780300089592 (DLC) 2001033320 (OCoLC)46935695
ISBN 9780300129755 (electronic book)
0300129750 (electronic book)
9780300089592
0300089597
1281730521
9781281730527