Editor’s Pages – Volume 29 / 2021
by Kathleen Coyne Kelly Welcome to the 2021 issue of The Concord Saunterer, my first as Editor. It represents, in…
Excerpts from The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, an annual peer-reviewed journal of Thoreau scholarship that features in-depth essays about Thoreau, his times and his contemporaries, and his influence today.
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Thoreau’s Walden: Epicureanism or Stoicism
by Toby J. Svoboda This paper argues against Pierre Hadot’s view that Thoreau in Walden displays Epicurean and Stoic traits in roughly…
“Here are the model children!” Revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s Representations of Her Parents’ Educational Theories
by Azelina Flint This article examines Louisa May Alcott’s representations of her parents’ educational theories in the “Plumfield” community of…
Finding Walden in Emerson’s Plato
by Mark Gallagher A previously unknown sketch resembling Thoreau’s house at Walden Pond discovered in a volume of Plato’s Works once…
Laundry!
by Brent Ranalli Abstract: The “laundry sneer”—finding fault with Thoreau for not doing his own washing—is a relatively recent phenomenon.…
Thoreau, Prometheus and the Universal Discourse of “Civil Disobedience”
by Rupendra Guha-Majumdar A significant act of mythopoesis proffered by Thoreau in New England in the 1840’s is that of…
Editor’s Pages – Vol. 22 / 2014
The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, N.S. Vol. 22, 2014 mat·ter /ˈmadər/ noun 1 physical substance in general,…
Thoreau’s Last Wolves in the Natural History Notebooks
Christopher V. Dolle and Raymond F. Dolle Thoreau’s late notebooks contain three extracts describing wolves, bears, and panthers from Frederick…