Thoreau in love / John Schuyler Bishop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, John Schuyler.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Fiction.

Thoreau, Henry David.

Transcendentalists (New England)--Fiction.

Transcendentalists (New England).

Homosexuality--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Homosexuality.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

Manners and customs.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

280 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

North Charleston, S.C. : Createspace, ©2013.

Summary:

In 1843, a repressive puritanism still hangs over Concord, Massachusetts, and Henry Thoreau, twenty-five years old, wants out. When his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, gives him an opportunity to move to New York City, the lively center of the growing nation, Henry leaves Concord with no thought of ever returning. In his journals, the 250-some pages about his trip to New York have been ripped out, the only substantial number of pages missing from the forty-seven journal volumes. What was so scandalous that Thoreau--or, more likely, his literary executor--decided no one should see it? And why did Thoreau stay only six months in New York? "Thoreau in Love" imagines the time of the missing pages, when Thoreau emerged from his shell and explored the wider world and himself before he returned to Concord, where he fearlessly lived the rest of his life and became the great naturalist and literary giant.

Notes:

"Cover art, John Hundley Greer."

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

9781482059656

1482059657

OCLC:

858566912