Thoreau's ecstatic witness [electronic resource] / Alan D. Hodder.
By: Hodder, Alan D.
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TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001Description: 1 online resource (xix, 346 p.).ISBN: 9780300129755 (electronic bk.); 0300129750 (electronic bk.); 9780300089592 (hc: alk. paper); 0300089597 (hc: alk. paper); 1281730521; 9781281730527.Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Religion | Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 | Electronic books | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Religion | Religion et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle | LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General | GeloofGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thoreau's ecstatic witness.DDC classification: 818/.309 LOC classification: PS3057.R4 | H63 2001ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-336) and index.
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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.
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