The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau by Joel Myerson

Author:Joel Myerson [Joel Myerson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780521440370
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

NOTES

1 Buell, Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1973), p. 274.

2 The last decade has witnessed a notable increase in criticism on the Journal. The principal studies are, chronologically: William Howarth, The Book of Concord (New York: Viking, 1982); Sharon Cameron, Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau’s Journal (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985); H. Daniel Peck, Thoreau’s Morning Work: Memory and Perception in “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,” the Journal, and “Walden” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), pp. 37–114; and Leonard N. Neufeldt, “Praetextus as Text: Editor-Critic Responses to Thoreau’s Journal,” Arizona Quarterly 46 (1990): 27–72.

3 Charles Brockden Brown, The Literary Magazine and American Register 1 (1803): 305–7.

4 Robert N. Hudspeth, “Margaret Fuller’s 1839 Journal: Trip to Bristol,” Harvard Library Bulletin 27 (1979): 467.

5 Lawrence Rosenwald, Emerson and the Art of the Diary (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 83–4.

6 Larry A. Carlson, “Bronson Alcott’s Journal for 1837 (Part One),” Studies in the American Renaissance 1981, ed. Joel Myerson (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981), p. 35.

7 For succinct descriptions of Thoreau’s changing practice in journal-keeping, see the “Historical Introduction” to each of the published volumes of the Princeton edition of the Journal (PJ 1 to PJ 4), and Howarth, Book of Concord, pp. 5, 9–10, 16, 37–41, and passim.

8 Rosenwald, Emerson and the Diary, p. 11.

9 The Journals of Bronson Alcott, ed. Odell Shepard (Boston: Little, Brown, 1939), p. 28.

10 Carlson, “Bronson Alcott’s Journal,” p. 58.

11 Howarth, Book of Concord, p. 86.

12 Buell, Literary Transcendentalism, p. 279.

13 Brown, Literary Magazine 1 (1803): 305–6.

14 Garber, Thoreau’s Fable of Inscribing (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), passim, and his “Getting the Journal Going” (address at the 1992 Modern Language Association convention – an abbreviated excerpt from his book in progress on the Journal). See also Henry Golemba, Thoreau’s Wild Rhetoric (New York: New York University Press, 1990), pp. 93–112, and Peck, Thoreau’s Morning Work, pp. 37–114.

15 See Peck, “The Crosscurrents of Walden’s Pastoral,” in New Essays on “Walden,” ed. Robert F. Sayre (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 73–94. Peck’s charting of various impulses offers a useful model for mapping the manifold intratextual impulses of Thoreau’s Journal.

16 Peck, Thoreau’s Morning Work, p. 81; Sherman Paul, The Shores of America: Thoreau’s Inward Exploration (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958); Stanley Cavell, The Senses of “Walden” (New York: Viking, 1972), especially pp. 70–93.

17 Neufeldt, “Praetextus as Text,” pp. 50–1, 54–5, 57–8, 66.

18 Golemba, Thoreau’s Wild Rhetoric, p. 94.

19 Buell, Literary Transcendentalism, p. 279; Michaels, “Walden’s False Bottoms,” Glyph 1 (1977): 142–7; Barbara Johnson, A World of Difference (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), pp. 49–56; Linck C. Johnson, Thoreau’s Complex Weave: The Writing of “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers” (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986), p. 164.

20 The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. William H. Gilman, Ralph H. Orth, et al., 16 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960–82), 1:91; Charles Emerson, “Notes from the Journal of a Scholar,” Dial 4 (1843): 88.

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