The environmental imagination: Thoreau, nature writing, and the formation of American culture

I. Historical and Theoretical Contexts. 1. Pastoral Ideology. 2. New World Dreams and Environmental Actualities. 3. Representing the Environment. 4. Walden's Environmental Projects

II. Forms of Literary Ecocentrism. 5. The Aesthetics of Relinquishment. 6. Nature's Personhood. 7. Nature's Face, Mind's Eye: Realizing the Seasons. 8. Place. 9. Environmental Apocalypticism

III. Environmental sainthood. 10. The Thoreauvian Pilgrimage. 11. The Canonization and Recanonization of the Green Thoreau. 12. Text as Testament: Reading Walden for the Author

Appendix: Nature's Genres: Environmental Nonfiction at the Time of Thoreau's Emergence.