Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness

by Alan D. Hodder

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300089597
• ISBN13: 9780300089592
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"