LEADER 03495nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910821214403321 005 20240418000657.0 010 $a1-281-73052-1 010 $a9786611730529 010 $a0-300-12975-0 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300129755 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471928 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171460 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258995 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204501 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258995 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10273490 035 $a(PQKB)11483720 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165559 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420070 035 $a(DE-B1597)485448 035 $a(OCoLC)1024008588 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300129755 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420070 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170760 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173052 035 $a(OCoLC)923589209 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471928 100 $a20010418d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThoreau's ecstatic witness /$fAlan D. Hodder 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xix, 346 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-08959-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-336) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: A Simple and Hidden Life --$tOne. My Life Was Ecstasy --$tTwo. A Clear and Ancient Harmony --$tThree. To Redeem This Wasted Time --$tFour. Born to Be a Pantheist --$tFive. The Artist of Kouroo --$tSix. To Speak Somewhere Without Bounds --$tSeven. A Meteorological Journal of the Mind --$tAfterword: One World at a Time --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWhen 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 organized religion, possessed a rich inner life, characterized 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 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. 606 $aReligion and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 676 $a818/.309 700 $aHodder$b Alan D$01627661 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821214403321 996 $aThoreau's ecstatic witness$93964361 997 $aUNINA