Finding Thoreau

"Extremely well written and well researched, Finding Thoreau is a valuable sourcebook for scholars of Thoreau in particular and for scholars of American literature and culture more generally."—Stephanie Foote, cofounder of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities

"Finding Thoreau is copiously documented, drawing on a myriad of authors and works in environmental and intellectual history."—Priscilla Coit Murphy, author of What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of "Silent Spring"

"Finding Thoreau [is] an excellent, highly readable survey of how [Thoreau's] reception was shaped by, but also helped to shape, successive understandings of 'nature' in American culture from the late 1860s to the present."—The New England Quarterly

"Judd has done excellent research to uncover so many lost dialogues about nature and Thoreau, and he shapes this immense and diverse literature into a meaningful, narrative framework."—Environmental History

"Everyone tries to find the 'real' Henry David Thoreau. Rather than arguing for a real Thoreau, Judd details the many studies of the transcendentalist."—American Literature

"Henry David Thoreau has been read in many ways over the years. In this helpful new study, Richard W. Judd aims to explain 'the dynamics of Thoreau's reputation' in American history . . . Judd does a great service in helping us understand how Thoreau has spoken to different generations of Americans."—Journal of American History