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This updated volume of the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series is a keenly detailed chronicle of the great thinker who will forever be known for his experiment in simple living documented in his work Walden. Reimagining Thoreau synthesizes the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's career from his graduation from Harvard in to his death in The purposes of the book are threefold: 1 to situate Thoreau's aims and achievements as a writer within the context of his troubled relationship to m microcosm of ante-bellum Concord; 2 to reinterpret Walden as a temporally layered text in light of the successive drafts of the book and the evidence.

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals and later books.

It also serves in some ways as a biographical guide, offering new insights into his. This book examines, in detail, about 30 portraits of Henry David Thoreau that were done by American artists between and the present day.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination.

Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Henry David Thoreau, Yogi. Richard Davis. A short summary of this paper. Download Download PDF. Translate PDF. But what did he mean in saying so? His own metaphor for this way of reading was the mixing of pure waters.

For more on the relationship between contemporary suggestions on earlier drafts of this essay. He did not follow the historicizing perspective of the Brit- Xenophilia: Par t 3 ish Orientalists responsible for many of the translations that he read, nor did he share in the dichotomizing judgments of British Anglicists. In particular, it opened for him the possibility of becom- ing a yogi. Rather, we read it, if we are Hindus, in order to understand the world, and our life within it; and if we are historians, in order to understand how our world has been seen by Hindus, to understand what the Gita has been doing to people these two thousand years or so as under its influence they have gone about their daily business, and their cosmic business.

Throughout his reading life, Thoreau approached other distant cultures with equal or greater passion. From his college years on he read Greek and Roman classics, and as an adult he immersed himself in a deep study of Native American cultures.

Thoreau, Walden, Thoreau, Letters to a Spiritual Seeker, Smith, What Is Scripture? He put together an essay never published on the Manusmr. In addition to Manusmr. He read J. Most important to Thoreau were H. Thoreau was inspired to translate a Harivam. Tho- reau never completed the Oriental project, and Transmigration remains, along with the excerpts of Manusmr. Other interests came to dominate his attention and reading: natural history, early North Amer- ican exploration, and the history and ethnography of Native Americans.

He continued to read Harivam. Thoreau proudly constructed a bookcase of driftwood to house his new collection, but, as far as one can tell, the Indic books mostly stayed on the shelf. He never sought to learn Dav is about contemporary India.

Although he was a gifted linguist, there is no sign that he ever entertained any idea of trying to learn Sanskrit. The number of translated Indian works available in Massachusetts in the early s was extremely limited.

Yet for ten years, from to , he devoted deep attention to several key works of classical India. Thoreau was in his late twenties and early thirties during this decade, and it was the most formative and productive period of his literary career. The Manusmr. The American Transcendentalists, separated by half a globe and fifteen or more centuries from the historical composition of these Indian works, regarded them as contemporary and somehow even local.

As Robert Richardson has observed, these formulations imply both a radical redefinition of history and a way of reading history. Thoreau, Journal of Henry David Thoreau, Emerson, Collected Works, Richardson, Emerson, No dust has settled on that robe; no time has elapsed since that divinity was revealed.

It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. Such attitudes and practices contrasted sharply with approaches to the texts of India then prominent in England.

William Jones and Charles Wilkins, who produced the translations of the Manusmr. Both learned Sanskrit by working with Indian Brahmin pandits and were among the first Europeans to become proficient in 61 the language.

Hastings had proposed that the Indian territories Xenophilia: Par t 3 under British colonial control be administered not according to English law but to the laws and customs of the local inhabitants.

But the Orientalists sought to learn about ancient India more broadly as well. They set out to study its classical literature, its religious works, and its his- tory. Not incidentally, they understood that all this knowledge could be useful for the purposes of colonial governance. Jones, Institutes of Hindu Law, i. Trautmann, Aryans and British India. He paternalistically supports the protection of Hindus under an ancient legal code that he believes, erroneously, they still hold sacred.

The Indian works also reached the shores of North America. Evangelical Christians and secular Utilitarians, in particular, mounted a powerful and effective attack on both the colonial policies of Hastings and the generous judgments of the earlier Oriental- ists.

The Evangelical Charles Grant and the Utilitarian James Mill, for instance, found common ground in arguing that British colonial administration must be based not on Indian traditions but on English laws and values. Schlegel, Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works, On This interpretive perspective situates a modern British reader like Mill, manifestly rational, at a critical distance from the writings of less rational peoples at inferior stages of social development.

In the lengthy section of History devoted to the Hindus, Mill redeploys the English translations of Indian classics like the Manusmr. Mill never tried to learn Sanskrit Dav is himself, arguing that he was therefore a more objective judge.

These works dem- onstrated to Mill that Hindus, both ancient and modern, belonged to a primitive stage of society. It is one of the most extravagant of all specimens of discourse with- out ideas. The fearless propensity of a rude mind to guess where it does not know, never exhibited itself in a more fantastic and senseless form.

Among the many Hindu systems of belief and practice that Mill disdains, yoga comes in for spe- cial attention. It was also a personal one, since it enabled him to obtain an official position with the East India Com- pany, where he could advocate for the civilizing colonial agenda of the Anglicists. There is no evidence, however, that Emerson or Thoreau paid it any attention, although it was certainly available in North Amer- ica in the s. They directed their attention instead to the primary Indian sources, as translated by the Orientalists.

Mill, History of British India, Inden, Imagining India, For New England Christian believers of the day, there was only one Bible. In espousing this position, Emerson and the other New England Transcendentalists were at the starting point of a historical shift in the idea of scripture. As Smith puts it in his book What is Scripture? The proliferation of bibles posed a new interpretive challenge. It is one thing to read religious works as authoritative within a community of believers.

The answer of the British Orientalists and Anglicists, and of my own Indological scholarly community, has been to situate these bibles, all bibles, historically.