Contents

pp v-vi

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-xiv

PART I - 1837–1849

pp 1-2

1 - “A False Position in Society”

pp 3-28

2 - “Under the Eyelids of Time”: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

pp 29-46

PART II - 1845–1854

pp 47-48

3 - Disconstructing Walden

pp 49-56

4 - Walden and the Rhetoric of Ascent

pp 57-98

5 - Interregnum (1849–1852)

pp 99-117

6 - Defying Gravity (1852–1854)

pp 118-164

PART III - 1854–1862

pp 165-166

7 - “A Point of Interest Somewhere Between” (1854–1857)

pp 167-182

8 - “Annexing New Territories” (1857–1862)

pp 183-204

Notes

pp 205-232

Index

pp 233-237

Title in the series

pp 238-240