Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. A History of Time: Emerson and Lyell, Agassiz,
  • and Darwin 6
  • 2. "My Camac" and Memnon's Head: Temporal Reform
  • and Timely Memorials in A Week on the Concord and
  • Merrimack Rivers 46
  • 3. Circles and Lines: Emerson's Parade of Days 92
  • 4. The Walking Stick, the Surveyor's Staff, and the Corn
  • in the Night: Thoreau's Alternative Temporal Indices 131
  • 5. Answering the Sphinx: The Evolution of the Emersonian
  • Metamorphosis 173
  • 6. Inches' Wood: Thoreau's Re-membered Cultural
  • 7. Landscape 201
  • Extemporaneous Man, Representative Man 235
  • Works Cited 253
  • Index 259.