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Tables of Contents for Above Time
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Abbreviations
xi
Introduction
1
5
A History of Time: Emerson and Lyell, Agassiz, and Darwin
6
40
``My Carnac'' and Memnon's Head: Temporal Reform and Timely Memorials in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
46
46
Circles and Lines: Emerson's Parade of Days
92
39
The Walking Stick, the Surveyor's Staff, and the Corn in the Night: Thoreau's Alternative Temporal Indices
131
42
Answering the Sphinx: The Evolution of the Emersonian Metamorphosis
173
28
Inches' Wood: Thoreau's Re-membered Cultural Landscape
201
34
Extemporaneous Man, Representative Man
235
18
Works Cited
253
6
Index
259