An Advance Resource Library

as outlined in episode twelve of the video series, Studying Thoreau.

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The Thoreau Log: A Documentary Life of Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862. Compiled by Raymond R. Borst. G. K. Hall, 1992. Online: The Thoreau Log: A Digital Documentary Life of Henry D. Thoreau
An Emerson Chronology. Compiled by Albert J. von Frank. G. K. Hall, 1994.   An Emerson Chronology. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Compiled by Albert J. von Frank. Studio Non Tropp, 2016.

The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. By Henry Petroski. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. By Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. Cornell University Press, 2007.

An Observant Eye: The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum. By David F. Wood. Concord Museum, 2006. Online: The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum
Thoreau’s Reading: A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographic Catalogue. Compiled by Robert Sattelmeyer. Princeton University Press, 1988.
Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine. Volume 9, number 9. September 1999.
Henry David Thoreau: A Descriptive Bibliography. Compiled by Raymond R. Borst. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.

The Literary Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau. By William L. Howarth. Ohio State University Press, 1986.
The Senses of Walden. By Stanley Cavell. The Viking Press, 1972.       The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition. By Stanley Cavell. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

The Magic Circle of Walden. By Charles Roberts Anderson. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968.
No Man’s Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature. By Daniel B. Botkin. Island Press, 2001.

Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism. By David M. Robinson. Cornell University Press, 2004.