San Antonio College Library

At his death in 1862, Henry Thoreau left the major part of his writings unpublished, including 47 manuscript volumes of the Journal he kept for 24 years. Although the Journal has been acknowledged to be central to Thoreau's canon, criticism of it has been peripheral until now. In this book, the author argues that ten years before his death Thoreau came to see the Journal as an autonomous composition-in competition with Walden -and that it was a viable...