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Author:   Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher:   University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint:   University of Massachusetts Press
Weight:   0.454kg
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9781625349422

ISBN 10:   1625349424
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   12 June 2026
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface On the Drawings Quoting Thoreau Abbreviations Frequently Used Sources Part I. Introduction: ""A pencil is one of the best eyes"" I. On Drawing: ""rude outline drawings"" II. The Journal: ""My journal should be a record of my love"" III. The Art and Science of Illustration: ""from year to year we look at Nature with new eyes"" Part II. The Drawings 1. November 26, 1850: ""Their spear very serviceable"" / Penobscot Artifacts 2. May 3, 1852: ""Moon in the south"" / Moonlit Landscape 3. July 8, 1852: ""Remarkable moth"" / Luna Moth 4. December 2, 1852: ""We saw a mink a slender black"" / Mink 5. May 15, 1853: ""What are those large conical-shaped fungi"" / Fungi 6. November 23, 1853: ""A harrow of geese"" / Geese Overhead 7. August 16, 1854: ""The distinct shadow of our shadows"" / Two Men in a Boat 8. August 19, 1854: ""The inner scales of a tortoise"" / A Tortoise's Scute 9. August 23, 1854: ""The middle of G's swamp""; February 3, 1860: ""40 paces to an inch"" / Swamped 10. February 10, 1856: ""His tracks when running"" / Fox Tracks 11. September 1856: ""Zig-zag thus"" / A panther's tooth 12. April 28, 1858: ""I see the fish-hawk again"" / Osprey 13. September 29, 1858: ""The form of the leaf too is peculiar"" / Nightshade 14. November 11, 1858: ""The tail-coverts of the young hen hawk"" and ""The scarlet oak leaf!"" / The Feather and the Leaf 15. November 26, 1858: ""Have young breams transverse bars?"" / Piscine Dabblings 16. March 13, 1859: ""I go to get one more sight of the old house"" / Hunt House 17. July 9, 1859: ""A phalanx of bullrushes"" / The Meanders of the Sudbury 18. February 8, 1860: ""The softened ice–I admire the markings in it"" / Ice Formations: Toward a Taxonomy 19. May 30, 1860: ""A little shed, under which I stood dry"" / A Self-Portrait 20. November 17, 1860: ""They lotted it off in this wise"" / The Heywood Lot Part III. Coda IV. Thoreau's Rooster Notes Index

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“In this impressive new book, each chapter offers an approach to Thoreau studies that centers on a drawing and leads into a rich avenue of inquiry that draws on an expansive range of scholarship. Kathleen Coyne Kelly has the potential to reshape how we read Thoreau. No one has made such a comprehensive case for the importance of his drawings.” - John J. Kucich, author of Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place “Kelly invites us to re-think the Thoreau we think we know, even for those of us who think we know him quite well. At once witty, smart, and deeply informed, Kelly’s tour through Thoreau’s drawings takes us on an historical, literary, and environmental adventure that reveals a more nuanced and complex Thoreau. Her prose is clear, concise, and smart—at times humorous, at times personal, at times deeply moving. Kelly’s treatment of the Journal drawings is unlike any book I’ve encountered on Thoreau.” - Rochelle Johnson, author of Passions for Nature: Nineteenth Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation and past president of the Thoreau Society

""In this impressive new book, each chapter offers an approach to Thoreau studies that centers on a drawing and leads into a rich avenue of inquiry that draws on an expansive range of scholarship. Kathleen Coyne Kelly has the potential to reshape how we read Thoreau. No one has made such a comprehensive case for the importance of his drawings.""--John J. Kucich, author of Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place ""Kelly invites us to re-think the Thoreau we think we know, even for those of us who think we know him quite well. At once witty, smart, and deeply informed, Kelly's tour through Thoreau's drawings takes us on an historical, literary, and environmental adventure that reveals a more nuanced and complex Thoreau. Her prose is clear, concise, and smart--at times humorous, at times personal, at times deeply moving. Kelly's treatment of the Journal drawings is unlike any book I've encountered on Thoreau.""--Rochelle Johnson, author of Passions for Nature: Nineteenth Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation and past president of the Thoreau Society

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Kathleen Coyne Kelly is professor of English at Northeastern University and editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies. She is the author of the Thoreau-inspired Field Notebook, published by the Thoreau Society, and the textbook Reading to Write: A Practical Rhetoric, as well as Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages and A. S. Byatt: A Study. Her work on Thoreau has appeared in NEQ: New England Quarterly, the Thoreau Society Bulletin, The Concord Saunterer, and the edited volume Henry David Thoreau in Context.

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