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• W293593662 abstract "In Cape Cod, Thoreau presents his journey to stark and undomesticated New England setting that in his day offered bleak and foreign views different from homelike familiarity that his sojourn to Walden Pond afforded. Because many interpret Cape Cod as proof of Thoreau's loss of faith, they are unable to reconcile it with philosophy of Walden. Offering an alternative to such readings, this study examines Thoreau's symbolic use of food and drink imagery in Cape Cod to support view that rather than negating writer's transcendental perspective, book instead tests, reconfirms, and extends convictions presented in Walden about life cycle, relationship between nature and humanity, and spiritual benefits of life lived close to nature. ********** Thoreau's concerns about mid-nineteenth-century American society e well known. His attitude toward dietary matters reflects his fundamental conviction that life is best lived simply, with moderation, and close to nature, philosophy that he believes society has abandoned to its detriment. For Thoreau, as he writes in Walden, The gross feeder is man in larva state. He counsels his readers: Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion (215, 91). In his Journal entry for 20 October 1855, Thoreau writes: I take some satisfaction in eating my food, as well as in being nourished by it. I feel well at dinner-time as well as after it.... I enjoy more drinking water at clear spring than out of goblet at gentleman's table. I like best bread which I have baked, garment which I have made, shelter which I have constructed, fuel which I have gathered. (7: 503) Although generally ascetic in his own dietary practices, he was no fanatic on subject. As Ralph Waldo Emerson observes about Thoreau, When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered, 'The nearest.' ... He liked and used simplest food, yet, some one urged vegetable diet, Thoreau thought all diets very small matter... (240, 242). Opinions differ about impetus behind Thoreau's inclination to dietary asceticism. In his study of Thoreau's diet at Walden Pond, Joseph Jones concludes that Thoreau's dietary practices were far from original and not even especially bizarre, considering times, but instead represented in some respects a common-sense compromise with austerity of vegetarian doctrines then widely current (154). While Jones declines to probe further to consider other possible motives behind Thoreau's dietary choices, James Armstrong argues that the basic motive for Thoreau's asceticism, both dietary and sexual, was his desire to reduce threats to his uncertain health that reformers maintained were offered by gastric and genital excitement (125). Thoreau suffered from tuberculosis, or consumption as was then commonly called. According to J. Arthur Myers, when records were first kept in Massachusetts in 1842 ... 22% of all deaths were recorded due to this disease (236). Further, cause, communicability, and treatment of tuberculosis were still undetermined Thoreau died from in 1862 at age of forty-four, situation that undoubtedly fostered good reason for Thoreau--as well as general public--to fear this mortal hazard and to consider dietary recommendations that might increase resistance to and improve physical health. Arguing from different perspective, however, Daniel A. Dombrowski claims that Thoreau's diet seems to have been part of his ascetical desire to purify soul (28). In keeping with his transcendental philosophy, Thoreau viewed physical vitality of nature as an indication of spiritual well being. Conceivably then, his stringent personal diet, as well as his celibacy, may have been partially rooted in his fear that his poor health was sign of an impure soul. …" @default.
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• W293593662 title "Thoreau's Taste for the Wild in Cape Cod" @default.
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