Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Foreword / Author: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis -- Introduction: Uses and Abuses of Thoreau / Authors: Kristen Case, Rochelle L. Johnson, and Henrik Otterberg -- Thoreau and Grief, Part I -- Grieving with the Kingfisher: Thoreau's Mourning Work in an Age of Political and Environmental Violence / Author: Rochelle L. Johnson -- Thoreau's Science -- The Evolutions of Thoreau's Science / Author: Robert Sattelmeyer -- Thoreau's Wild Acoustics: (Re)sounding in the Concord Landscape / Author: Dennis Noson -- Thoreau and the More-Than-Human -- Thoreau's Extra-vagant Sublime and the Milder Majesty of Nature / Author: Ronald Wesley Hoag -- Thoreau and the Desynchronization of Time / Author: Mark Luccarelli -- Henry David Thoreau and the Creation of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument / Author: James S. Finley -- Thoreau and Race -- Thoreau's Indian Problem: Savagism, Indigeneity, and the Politics of Place / Author: John J. Kucich -- Henry David Thoreau's Lifelong Indian Play / Author: Brent Ranalli -- The Whiteness of Walden: Reading Thoreau with Attention to Black Lives / Author: Rebecca Kneale Gould -- Live Deliberately, Stay Woke: Thoreau's Influence on William Melvin Kelley / Author: Mark Gallagher -- Thoreau's Reception -- Walden's Utopian Legacies / Author: Michelle C. Neely -- Notes on Thoreau, Carlyle, and Nordic Echoes / Author: Bergur Þorgeirsson -- Standing Up to Trump, with Thoreau / Author: Andrew McMurry -- Thoreau and Grief, Part II -- Thoreau's Vulnerable Resistance / Author: Kristen Case -- Afterword -- Thoreauing Caution to the Wind / Author: Henrik Otterberg -- Back Matter -- Contributor Biographies -- Figures -- Index.

Thoreau in an Age of Crisis reconsiders the relevance of 19th-century American naturalist, philosopher, and social reformer Henry David Thoreau to our troubled present. This new anthology collects the work of fourteen leading scholars from various disciplines. They consider Thoreau's life and work in light of contemporary concerns regarding racism, climate change, environmental policy, and political strife. They review Thoreau's trajectory as a scientist and literary artist, as well as his evolving attitudes toward Native American cultures. The essaysists also consider Thoreau's acoustics, concepts of play, and impact on later writers. Most provocatively, they reveal a vulnerable and empathetic Thoreau, a far cry from the distanced and misanthropic critic often portrayed in popular culture.

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