MLA 2023 (San Francisco) Call for Papers
The Thoreau Society at the Modern Language Association, 2023 (San Francisco) Title of Session: “Transcendentalism, Spirituality, and Social Justice” In…
2022 Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance Graduate Student Fellowship
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fourth annual Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) Graduate Student Fellowship.
Call for Papers: ALA Conference in Chicago
In conjunction with the Robert Frost Society, the Thoreau Society is pleased to sponsor these two sessions at the upcoming…
Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau
The Thoreau Society NEH 2022 Summer Institute: Spend two weeks in Concord, Massachusetts immersed in this topic with seminars and…
Thoreau Society Panel at Modern Language Association (MLA), Sunday, January 9, 2022
“A life within a life”: Thoreau, Ecopoetics and a Dictionary of the Indian Languages Michael Jonik, University of Sussex At…
Thoreau Society Bulletin 312 | Winter 2021
VIEW PDF This issue of the Thoreau Society Bulletin is made possible by a grant from Mass Humanities, which provided…
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…
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…
