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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls, and Julien Nègre&
Part I: Contact Zones
1. An Imperfect Indian Wisdom: Thoreau, Ecocultural Contact, and the Spirit of Place
2. Cape Cod’s Transnational Bodies
3. Beyond the Borders of Time: Thoreau and the “Ante-Pilgrim History” of the New World&
4. Making the Invisible Visible: Thoreau’s Texts and/as Mapping Practices
5. Rhetoric of Empire and Poetic Borderlands in Thoreau’s “Walking”
Part II: Crossing Boundaries
6. Opening Walden
7. Materialities of Thought: Botanical Geography and the Curation of Resilience in Susan Fenimore Cooper and Henry David Thoreau
8. “A Crash is Apt to Grate Agreeably on Our Ears”: Thoreau and Dissonance&
9. Beyond Temporal Borders: The Music of Thoreau’s Kalendar
Part III: Widening Circles
10. “Wider than Our Views of It”: Thoreau’s Universalism
11. Cape Cod, Literature, and the Illocality of Thinking about Capital&
12. Between “That Fartherest Western Way” and “the University of the West”: Thoreau’s Dialectic of Reform
13. Thoreau: Crossing to the Sacred
14. Counter Frictions: Thoreau and the Integral Commons
Contributors
Index
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