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The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies is an annual peer-reviewed journal of Thoreau scholarship that features in-depth essays about Thoreau, his times and his contemporaries, and his influence today.

Editor

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Associate Editor          Associate editor

Thomas W. Howard                                   Alice de Galzain

Advisory Editors

Barry Andrews  Wesley T. Mott   Michael Berger   Patrick F. O’Connell 
Robert Burkholder   Philip Cafaro   William Rossi   Sandra H. Petrulionis
Kristen Case  Richard J. Schneider   James Finley   François Specq
Susan E. Gallagher   Robert Thorson   Ronald W. Hoag
Laura Dassow Walls  Michael Jonik   Elizabeth Witherell   Alex Moskowitz

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The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies seeks biographical, historical, textual, bibliographical, and interpretive articles relating to Henry David Thoreau, his legacy, his associates, the Concord circle of authors, and Transcendentalism more generally. Submissions of all lengths are invited; however, a range of 8,000-10,000 words, including notes and works cited, is preferred. In some cases, shorter pieces will be recommended for submission to the quarterly Thoreau Society Bulletin (TSB) instead.

Contributions should conform to MLA documentation style. We also publish creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, and art with a focus on the natural world. Please send submissions via e-mail as an attachment (MS Word preferred; house style sheet available upon request.) to cs@thoreausociety.org. We are a peer-reviewed journal; we strive to report decisions within three months.

Subscription is by membership in the Society. The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies is a member of JSTOR and of CELJ (the Council of Editors of Learned Journals); it is referenced in American Literary ScholarshipAmerican Humanities Index, and the MLA Bibliography.

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ESSAYS

Thoreau’s River Seasons: A Phenological Baseline
by Robert M. Thorson
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In Distant Fields: “Wild Apples” and Planetarity
by Charmion Gustke

Mining the Mind: Metaphors of Endless Extraction and Literal Limits in Henry David Thoreau’s Writing
by Mary Galli

Literature as Shelter: From Henry David Thoreau to Paul Auster
by François Hugonnier

CLUSTER: Teaching Transcendentally

Introduction: From Transcendental Learning to Teaching Transcendentally
by Morgan Shipley

Teaching for Self-Growth: Applying a Thoreauvian Pedagogy to Enhance a Course in Geography
by Rebecca A. Johns

Imagining “Ultimate Extinction”: Walden, Undergraduate Research, and Earth’s Futures
by Jessica Bartel And Christopher Hager

“More than Machines of Labor”: Peabody and Winnemucca’s Educational Partnership
by Sarah Klotz

Spirituality as Reciprocal Responsibility: A Transcendentalist Pedagogy
by Morgan Shipley

POETRY

HDT, Poetry from Prose
by Claire Russell

ARTWORK

Gifts at Dusk, Thoreau’s Headstone, Sleepy Hollow
by Marc Jolley

Reeds at Walden
by Mathieu Lalonde

ESSAYS

Embodied Wildness: Disability Studies and Thoreau’s Natural Health Philosophy
by Mark Sturges

Reading(s of) “deliberately”: Thoreau’s Ascetic Libra
by David Barral

The Politics of Habitability in Thoreau’s “Walking”
by Andrew M. Rose

Metaphoric Traveling with Henry David Thoreau
by Susan L. Roberson

CLUSTER: Richard Powers’ The Overstory + Thoreau

Arboreal Narrative Time: The Overstory and the Art of Thoreau’s Journal
by Cristin Ellis

A Novel Way of Writing Trees
by Richard Higgins

“And All the Trees of the Field Shall Clap Their Hands”: Contextual Reflections on Powers, Thoreau and the Sacredness of Trees
by Rebecca Kneale Gould

Understory: Thoreau’s Human Ecology of the Margins
by John J. Kucich

POETRY

AMERICAN LITERATURE I
by Howard Nelson

From the Train
by James Engell

ARTWORK

Trillium
by Karla Collins-Eck

Charming the Perch at Walden Pond
by Donna Marie Przybojewski

EDITOR’S PAGES

ESSAY

Birds as Moral Measure-Thoreau and Audubon as Men of Their Time: Choosing Sins of Hate or Love and Doing Better
by J. Drew Lanham

Making Walden and Its Sandbank
by William Rossi

CLUSTER: “Other Than Thoreau”

Martin Delany: Labor, Ecology, and Black Freedom
by Alex Moskowitz

Environmental Double Consciousness and Thoreauvian Intertextuality in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative
by Megan Cole

Primary Texts

Frederick Douglass, “Niagara”
by Matthias Klestil

Charlotte Forten, Nature Writer
by Mollie Barnes

POETRY AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION

What Thoreau Knew About Butterflies
by Lewis Hyde

Poems about Thoreau: “Thoreau at the Morgan,” “Walking Around Walden,” “Thoreau’s Cairn”
by David K. Leff

“The House of Stillness,” “Pen from Korea,” “Loon’s Way”
by David McCann

PHOTOGRAPHY

Snowberry Clearwing (Hemaris diffinis), near Walden Pond
by Michael Frederick

Eastern Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes asterius) & Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), on Walden’s Shore
by Vanessa Vallee

EDITOR’S PAGES

ESSAYS

Laundry!
by Brent Ranalli

Finding Walden in Emerson’s Plato
by Mark Gallagher

Thoreau’s Last Wolves in the Natural History Notebooks
by Christopher V. Dolle and Raymond F. Dolle

“Here are the model children!” Revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s Representations of Her Parents’ Educational Theories
by Azelina Flint

Thoreau, Prometheus, and the Universal Discourse of “Civil Disobedience”
by Rupendra Guha-Majumdar

Thoreau’s Walden: Epicureanism or Stoicism?
by Toby J. Svoboda

POETRY AND CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Sixty Excursions and Thoreau’s Journal
by James Perrin Warren

Bird Poems
by Charles Weld

PHOTOGRAPHY

The Rhizomatic Water Lily (Nymphaea oderata) at Heywood Meadow
by Cecelia Musselman

Editor’s Pages

ESSAYS

The Strange Evolution of Henry Thoreau’s House
by Charles Shurcliff

An Inexhaustible (Digital) Landscape
by Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Matt Hardy, and Greg Palermo

Voicing Silence
by Christopher A. Dustin

Henry Thoreau
by Joseph Cusumano

The Aim of the Laborer
by David B. Raymond

Thoreau’s Legacy for Climate Change
by Scott Hess

THE AUTHOR SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY: A ROUNDTABLE

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
by Bonnie Carr O’Neill

Storytelling in the 21st Century
by Noelle A. Baker

The Potential of the Author Society
by Marlowe Daly-Galeano

Authorizing Scholarship
by Karen L. Kilcup

Fostering Education and Challenging Our Lives
by James S. Finley & Sandra Herbert Petrulionis

POETRY

Beyond the Concord and Merrimack
by Catherine Staples

Henry Lifts an Arrowhead from the Manse Fields
by Catherine Staples

Relic Hunting
by Catherine Staples

EDITOR’S PAGES

ESSAYS

Three Ways of Looking at a Loon: “Gavia Immer” (Common Loon) in the Works of Henry David Thoreau
by Ann Beebe

“And the Landscape Radiated From Me Accordingly”: Discovering Thoreau as Surveyor in the American Literature Survey
by Denise Kohn

Henry David Thoreau, Archaeologist?
by Curtis Runnels

Remeasuring Thoreau: The Maine Woods and Thoreau’s Evolving Appreciation of the Racial Other
by Michael Stoneham

Thoreau’s Indian Stride
by Brent Ranalli

PHOTOGRAPHS

Thoreau Country
by Esther Howe Wheeler Anderson

BIOGRAPHY: A ROUNDTABLE

Thoreau and Biography: A Roundtable
by James S. Finley

Reframing Thoreau’s Stoic Biography
by Jacob Risinger

A Posthumous Life: Thoreau and the Possibilities of Posthuman Biography
by Karah M. Mitchell

Thoreau without Emerson?
by John Ronan

Who Touches This: Thoreau and the (Auto)Biographical Imperative
by Stan Tag

Thoreau and Biography: A Response
by Laura Dassow Walls

POETRY

Concord
by Michael Steffen

Seasonals
by Steve Wilson

Editor’s Pages

The Walden Pond Collection
by Tim Laman

“Heron at Dusk”
by Tim Laman

A NEW NOH PLAY

Introduction
by Kuniyoshi Munakata

Men Who Would Not Fight: Henry Thoreau and R. H. Blyth
by Kuniyoshi Munakata

EsSAYS

Walking in Wolf-Light
by Christopher V. Dolle and Raymond F. Dolle

“November Morning”
by Tim Laman

“A Smack of Wildness”: Affect and Enchantment in Thoreau’s First Taste of the Maine Woods
by Jake McGinnis

“Winter Moon”
by Tim Laman

Thoreau’s Poetry and the New Materialism: A Matter of “Enmeshedness”
by Michael R. Schrimper

“Misty Sunrise—Thoreau Cove”
by Tim Laman

Confucianism, Transcendentalism, and the “Dao” of Henry David Thoreau
by Austin Bernard Ross

“Pine Cone and Club Mosses”
Tim Laman

Resistance: A Roundtable

Educating the State: Civil Disobedience by Dumas’ Musketeers
by Brent Ranalli

Stop the Machine: Civil Disobedience and Maria Alyokhina’s “Riot Days”
by Charmion Gustke

Radical Minimalism: “Walden” in the Capitalocene
by Michelle C. Neely

Resisting Extinction with Thoreau’s Mystical Empiricism
by Rachael DeWitt

Thoreau at the Crossroads
by John Matteson and Diane Whitley Grote

“Rain Drops on Floating Leaf”
by Tim Laman

Vain Strivings Untied
by David K. Leff

editor’s pages

essays

As High a Heaven
by Richard Higgins

The Quiet Pattern of Walden Pond: Four Models of the Pond’s Water Level
by John M. Nevison

Thoreau, the Work of Breathing, and Building Castles in the Air: Reading Walden’s “Conclusion”
by Michael Gionfriddo

A School for the Present: Educational Lessons from Thoreau’s Journal
by Ernesto Estrella Cozar

teaching thoreau at 200: a roundtable

Sauntering the Year with Henry Thoreau
by Donna Marie Przybojewski

Tweeting Thoreau, and Other 21 st Century Strategies
by Luke Sundermeier and Heather Bise

Through “The Bean Field”
by David Albano

A 21 st Century Approximation of Two Years in the Woods
by Liz Sokolov

Chatting about “Nature” with Henry David Thoreau and William Cronon
by Andrew Bishop

Teaching Thoreau’s “Walking” in the 21 st Century
by Michael R. Schrimper

Taking Thoreau to Texas
by Kathryn Hamilton Warren

Grappling with Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” in the Russian Federation
by Christian Peterson

Thoreau in China: Reflections on Teaching “Walden” to Chinese Students
by Patrick Morgan

Thoreau, Race and Environmental Justice: Deepening the Conversation
by Rebecca Kneale Gould

poetry

Three Poems
Aphelion
by Sarah Alcott Anderson

The North Woods
by Sarah Alcott Anderson

At the Lake
by Sarah Alcott Anderson

Godhood
by Victor Carl Friesen

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essays

Thoreau as Moral Hero
by Barry Andrews

Thoreau’s Missing Militia Service
by Brent Ranalli

A Season of Purity: The Moral Naturalism of Henry David Thoreau
by Jeffrey Utzinger

On the Trail of the Hound, Bay Horse, and Turtledove: More Tracks
by Alan Hodder

“Sympathy with Intelligence”: Thoreau’s Reveries of Wonder, Presence and Divinities
by Edward Fiske Mooney

“Partly the Voice of the Wood”: Acoustic Ecology and the Soundscape of “Walden”
by Ian Steward Marshall

Sunday on the River, Tuesday on the Beach: Wallace Stevens and the Influence of Thoreau
by Edward Gillin

exhibition

N. C. Wyeth’s Men of Concord
by Carol L. Haines

a modern lyceum

A Modern Lyceum: Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and Education in the 19th Century and Today
by Lawrence Buell, Jeffrey S. Cramer and Megan Marshall

poetry

Triptych for Thoreau
by Rick Kempa

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essays

Thoreau’s Myth as Temporal Alternative
by Alexandra Manglis

“Another protest that shall be ‘heard round the world'”: The “Woman’s Journal” and Women’s Pilgrimages to Concord, Massachusetts
by Todd H. Richardson

Thoreau’s Evolving Dream Toad Paradise, 1850-1860
by Walter Hesford

“First-Rate Fellows”: Excavating Thoreau’s Radical Egalitarian Reflections in a Late Draft of “Allegash”
by Courtney Traub

It’s Not About You: Loon Games on Walden Pond
by Joan R. Wry

“Civil disobedience” Now: A roundtable

Introduction
by Kristen Case

Thoreau and Violence
by Lance Newman

An Accidental Activist
by Jean Lee Cole

#ReclaimHDT
by James S. Finley

in memoriam, j. walter brain, march 19,1936-april 19, 2015

A Tribute to J. Walter Brain
by Allan H. Schmidt

THE POET AT WALDEN II
by J. WALTER BRAIN

He Chose Minnesota
by Stephen Cushman

editor’s pages

ESSAYS

Figuring Henry: Thoreau’s Autobiographical Accounts in Walden
by Henrik Otterberg

“Making the earth say beans”: Thoreau’s “The Bean-Field” as Latourian Mobilization
by Melissa Sexton

On the Quandary of Dreaming Frogs: Deciphering Thoreau’s Philosophical Engagement
by Alfred I. Tauber

on walden: three lyric readings

Spiritual Signature: On Thoreau’s Expressive Silence
by Dan Beachy-Quick

Nicks, Intimacy
by Ian Davis

The Discipline of Vicinity: On Visiting Walden Pond
by Christina Davis

thoreau studies and the material turn: a roundtable (part i)

Introduction

Thoreau’s Flute, or, “the Moose, the Pine Tree, & the Indian”
by Kathleen Coyne Kelly

“Matter and Objects in” The Maine Woods

by James Finley

Feeling What You See: Objectivity and Reflexivity in Thoreau’s Lively Science
by Cristin Ellis

Reading Thoreau’s Animals
by Michelle C. Neely

poetry

Itinerary
by Christina Davis

Mankindness
by Christina Davis

I Have Set Fire to the Forest
by Cecily Parks

Aubade with Foxes
by Cecily Parks

Pilgrim
by Cecily Parks

Skylight
by Cecily Parks

A Commonweal
Douglas Storm

editor’s pages

essays

“Justice in the Land”: Ecological Protest in Henry David Thoreau’s Antislavery Essays
by James Finley

The Moods of Climate Change, with Thoreau
by Andrew McMurry

by Grace Kendall

a roundtable on thoreau and religion

Thoreau on the Strange Relation of Matter and Spirit
by Christopher A. Dustin

Preservative Care and Becoming Feral: Thoreau’s Religious Perspective in “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”
by Robert Michael Ruehl

The Echoes of “Walden”: Reading Thoreau’s Inverted Scripture through Cavell
by Brendan Mahoney

Land Surveying as a Poetic Exercise in “Walden” and “Walking”
by Iuliu Ratiu

To Know a Bean
by Jodie Noel Vinson

editor’s pages

essays

Henry David Thoreau: Writing the Cosmos: Address for the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, July 9, 2011
by Laura Dassow Walls

Lost in the Maine Woods: Henry David Thoreau, Joseph Nicolar, and the Penobscot World
by John J. Kucich

Henry C. Wheeler’s Native American Artifact Collection at the Thoreau Farm
by Shirley Blancke

“An emblem of all progress”: Ecological Succession in Thoreau’s “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”
by Richard J. Schneider

Thoreau’s Wild Ethics
by Edward F. Mooney

Henry David Thoreau and American American Postwar Art
by Evan Neely

Vortex
by Jeffrey Thomson

“What is the sea to a fox?” Why Would Thoreau Ask?: Imaging the Atlantic in “Cape Cod”
by Albena Bakratcheva

The Reader and the Classics in Thoreau’s “Walden”
by Robert Klevay

Embodiment, Spirituality, and the Tactile Perception of Air in Thoreau’s “Walden”
by Margy Thomas Horton

One World at a Time: Remembering Henry David Thoreau on the 150 th Anniversary of His Death
by Lorraine Loviglio, Dianne Weiss, Polly Peterson and Jenny Rankin
 

editor’s pages

essays

From Ortelius to Champlain: The Lost Maps of Henry David Thoreau
by John Hessler

Thoreau’s Rhetoric of Estrangement in “Cape Cod”: Looking at America through a Knot-hole
by Bradley Ray King

Aesthetic Inflections: Thoreau, Gender, and Geology
by Patrick Morgan

Henry David Thoreau in the American Art of the 1950s
by Mark Sullivan

THE POET AT WALDEN: “SOJOURN”
by J. WALTER BRAIN

On Not Building a Cabin: Notes from Henry Thoreau’s Journal, 21 st -Century Edition
by Ian Marshall

“All the Change Has Been in Me”: My Life as a Transcendentalist
by Audrey Raden

Deconstructing the Shed: Where I Live and What I Live For
Samuel Alexander

 

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articles

The Troubled Ocean: Charity, Sentiment, and Thoreau’s Global Consciousness in Cape Cod
by James Patrick Brown

Hunting the Human Animal: The Art of Ethical Perception in ‘Higher Laws
by Nancy Mayer

Henry Thoreau, Charles Olson and the Poetics of Place
by Kristen Case

Evolving Transcendentalism: Thoreauvian Simplicity in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and Contemporary Ecological Architecture
by Naomi Uechi

A real practical, in the American manner:’ Turgenov’s Emersonian Reformer”
by Jeffrey Bilbro

‘The Most Dismal Fraud of the New England Transcendental Group:’ Julian Hawthorne on Thoreau
by Gary Scharnhorst

Henry David Thoreau and the American Work Ethic
by David B. Raymond

articles

In the Company of Savagists: Thoreau’s Indian Books
by Joshua David Bellin

The Theme of Time in Thoreau’s Cape Cod
by Benjamin Vilhauer

Walden‘s Political Thoreau
by Paul Friedrich

Thoreau’s Translations: John Brown, Apples, Lillies
by Edward Mooney

Commercial Method and Thoreau’s Economy of Subsistence Writing
by David Dowling

The Old Corner Bookstore: ‘Rialto of Current Good Things, Hub of the Hub’
by David Emblidge

The Elusive Spirit of Thoreau
by Rexford Strathroy

Almost There: Thoreau’s Iconic Animals and Typee‘s Tidal Tug
by Michael Gionfriddo

editor’s pages

essays

Recently Discovered Revisions Made by Thoreau to the First Edition Text of “Civil Disobedience”
by James Dawson

Thoreau’s Manuscript Surveys: Getting Beyond the Surface
by Leslie Perrin Wilson

Economic and Environmental Perspectives in the Surveying “Field-Notes” of Henry David Thoreau
by Patrick Chura

The Virtue of Simplicity: Reading Thoreau with Aristotle
by Brian Treanor

The Economy of the Inward Life: John Woolman and Henry Thoreau
by William Jolliff

An Unseen Stream
by Sam Pickering

Mapping Thoreau’s World: An Artist’s Journal on Making an Illustrated Map of Historic Concord
by John Roman

Richard J. Schneider, editor

editor’s pages

Transcendental Romance Meets the Ministry of Pain: The Thoreau Brothers, Ellen Sewall, and Her Father
by Shawn Stewart

The Shrouded Mountaintop: Intertextuality and the Misreading of Thoreau’s “Ktaadn”
by Phillip Howerton

“My River … Leads to the Sea”: Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country By-Ways as Thoreauvian Travel Narrative
by Gayle Smith

Jack London’s Knowledge of Thoreau
by Louise E. Wright

“A Strange, Wild Land, Permeated by Sea and Wind”: Esther Forbes in Thoreau’s Tracks on Cape Cod
by Kent P. Ljungquist

Mr. Emerson Comes to St. Louis: “Inspiration” and Kate Chopin
by Kathleen Nigro

Concord Comes to Cold Mountain: Emersonian Elements in Frazier’s Cold Mountain
by Fredrica B. Glucksman

The Archdruid Visits Walden Pond
by Edmund A. Schofield

Richard J. Schneider, editor
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special walden sesquicentennial issue: walden the place and walden the book

Thoreau’s “Walden” in the Twenty-first Century

by SueEllen Campbell, Bradley P. Dean, Bill McKibben, John Hanson Mitchell, Joel Myerson, Mary E. Pitts, Robert Sattelmeyer, Jay Vogelsong, Laura Dassow Walls and Edward O. Wilson

Thoreau’s “Walden” in the Global Community

Albena Bakratcheva, Antonio Casado da Rocha, Aimin Cheng, Michel Granger, Patrick Labriola, Emma Emmerich, Wilhelm Nobbe, Walther Fischer, Shoko Itoh, Katsumi Kamioka, Andy Nagashima, G. Madhusoodanan, Henrik Otterberg, Nikita Pokrovsky and Barry Tharaud

walden the place

Emerson’s “Wyman Lot”: Forgotten Context for Thoreau’s House at Walden
by W. Barksdale Maynard

Rediscovery at Walden: The History of Thoreau’s Bean-Field
by Bradley P. Dean

Three Thoreau Haunts at Walden Pond
by J. Walter Brain

Realizing Resistance: Thoreau and the First of August, 1846 at Walden
by Randall Conrad

Saving Walden
by Joseph C. Wheeler

Beyond the “Common Course”: Exploring and Teaching Walden on Foot
by Lucinda Damon-Bach

walden the book

Hound, Bay Horse and Turtle-Dove: Obscurity and Authority in Thoreau’s Walden
by Henrick Otterberg

Transcendentalism, Perfectionism and Walden
by Daniel S. Malachuk

“Live Thus Deliberately”: Authenticity and Narrative Ethics in Walden
by Antonio Casado da Rocha

Ripeness: Thoreau’s Critique of Technological Modernity
by Ken Hiltner

“The life Excited”: Faces of Thoreau in Walden
by Steven Hartman

Walden as Feminist Manifesto
by Laura Dassow Walls

The Everlasting Great Look of the Sky: Thoreau and E.B. White at Walden Pond
by Robert Root

Meaning in N.C. Wyeth’s Walden Pond Revisited
by Mark Sullivan

Wilderness and Spirit, A Mountain Called Katahdin: An Interview with Maine Filmmaker Huey
by Ronald Wesley Hoag

Richard J. Schneider, editor
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Articles

Emerson in the Twenty-first Century
by Gustaaf Van Cromphout, Sterling Delano, T. Gregory Garvey, Len Gougeon, Robert D. Habich, Alan D. Hodder, Wesley T. Mott, Joel Myerson, Barbara Packer, Gayle L. Smith

Emerson and Second Church in Boston
by Wesley T. Mott

Emerson: Religion after Transcendentalism
by David M. Robinson

John Muir and the Emerson Centennial
by J. Parker Huber

Emerson on the Soul: What the Eye Cannot See
by David Lyttle

Dear Friend: Letter Writing in Concord
by Robert N. Hudspeth

“Treasure in My Own Mind”: The Diary of Martha Lawrence Prescott, 1834-1846
by Leslie Perrin Wilson

“Patron of the World”: Henry Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet
by Lance Newman

Dragonfly Days at Trail Wood: Remembering Edwin W. and Nellie Teale
by Millard C. Davis

Richard J. Schneider, editor

articles

Thoreau and the American Passion for Wilderness
by Donald Worster

Thoreau’s Environmental Ethics in Walden
by Philip Cafaro

A Concord Farmer Looks Back: The Reminiscences of William Henry Hunt
by Leslie Perrin Wilson

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature: Puritan Typology and German Idealism
by Patrick Labriola

A Thoreau in Paradise: E.J. Banfield’s My Tropic Isle
by Robert Zeller

Richard J. Schneider, editor
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The Depth of Walden Pond: Thoreau As a Guide to Solving Twenty-First Century Environmental Problems
by Daniel B. Botkin

Devising the “Writer’s Soul” in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
by Robert Hubbard

“Slavery in Massachusetts” and Mitchel’s Citizen: Rhetoric, Reform and Reprobates in 1854
by Chris L. Nesmith

Emerson and Natural Evil
by David Lyttle

Mrs. Woodward Hudson’s Memoir of Mrs. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
by Leslie Perrin Wilson

Thoreau’s Tarn Identified: Guilder Pond
by Bernard A. Drew

Kate Field on Thoreau
by Gary Scharnhorst

Kindred Spirits: Edwin Way Teale and Henry David Thoreau
by Thomas A. Potter

Richard J. Schneider, editor
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The Environment and the 21st Century: A Thoreauvian Interlude
by Max Oelschlaeger

Journal of a Cross Lot Walker: Why We Think We Own North America
by John Hanson Mitchell

Thoreau’s Virtue Ethics in Walden
by Philip Cafaro

The Publication of Nature: Walden and the Struggle of Authorship
by John Nickel

N. C. Wyeth, Thoreau, and Men of Concord
by Leslie Perrin Wilson

“Thoreau, His Critics, and the Public”
by N. C. Wyeth

Eight Hours: John Muir in Concord
by J. Parker Huber

Ronald Wesley Hoag, editor
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Where Thoreau Was Born
by Joseph C. Wheeler

Growing Up On Thoreau Farm
by Joseph C. Wheeler

Seeds of Optimism: Thoreau’s Late Field Studies
by Madeleine Minson)

Tenth Muse Errant: On Thoreau’s Crisis of Technology and Language
by Henrik Gustafsson

Keeping Pace With His Companion: Thomas Merton and Henry Thoreau
by Patrick F. O’Connell

Herbert W. Gleason: A Photographer’s Journey to Thoreau’s World
by Dale R. Schwie

The Herbert Wendell Gleason Negatives in the Concord Free Public Library: Odyssey of a Collection
by Leslie Perrin Wilson

Letters and Poems from Ellery Channing to Fanny Cummings, 1880-1882
by Joel Myerson and Susan M. Stone

Thoreau’s Panoramic Vision and the Art of Guido Reni
by Charles Colbert

The Art and Legacy of Henry Beston’s The Outermost House
by Allan D. Burns

Ronald Wesley Hoag, editor
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Foundations for the Castle: Building the Thoreau Institute
by Jason Taylor

Thoreau, Thales, and the Distribution of Water
by Eric Wilson

“I am of French Extract”: Thoreau’s Sympathy with the French
by Richard S. Randolph

Henry David Thoreau
by Frans G. Bengtsson; trans. by Thorsten & Rosemary Sjolin; ill. by Gunnar Brusewitz

Germany and the American Transcendentalists: An Intellectual Bridge
by Patrick Labriola

Thoreau as Leading Man: Bringing Him to the Screen
by Linda Keslar

West by Southwest: Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey
by Gordon V. Boudreau

Edward Waldo Emerson’s Recollections of His Father’s Death
by Joel Myerson

Thoreau and Zane Grey’s The Vanishing American
by Victor Carl Friesen

Ronald Wesley Hoag, editor
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Rethinking Thoreau and the History of American Ecology
by Frank N. Egerton and Laura Dassow Walls

In Search of Spring and Fall: Anticipation of Seasons in Thoreau’s Journal
by Madeleine Minson

Henry Thoreau and the Advent of American Rail
by Henrik Gustafsson

Thoreau and Australia: Sauntering Under the Southern Cross
by James Porter

Australia’s Literary Beachcomber: Confessions of a Different Drummer
by Edmund J. Banfield

“The World Is a Divine Dream”: Emerson’s Subjective Idealism
by David Lyttle

Twelve Ungathered Poems by Franklin B. Sanborn (1831-1917)
by Ronald A. Bosco

John Muir and Thoreau’s Cape Cod
by J. Parker Huber

Home Places: Excerpts from Woodswoman III
by Anne LaBastille

Correcting the Newspapers: Thoreau and “A Plea for Captain John Brown”
by David G. Fuller

Uncaptured Monsters: The Ostracizing Allusions of Walden
by Sharlene Roeder

Ronald Wesley Hoag, editor
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Henry Thoreau in Cyberspace
by Joel Myerson

Who Owns Henry Thoreau?
by Lawrence Buell

Brook Farm and Concord: Transit Between Celebrated Communities
by Sterling F. Delano

The Saunterer’s Vision: Henry Thoreau’s Epiphany of Forest Dynamics in The Dispersion of Seeds
by Michael Berger

Henry Thoreau and the Estabrook Country: A Historic and Personal Landscape
by Stephen F. Ells

Thoreau in the Town School, 1837
by Dick O’Connor

Thoreau’s “Basket of a Delicate Texture”: Weaving History in A Week
by Judith Broome Mesa-Pelly

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A Rambling History of The Thoreau Society
by Walter Harding

Thoreau and the Woodswoman
by Anne LaBastille

At Home with Lidian: Henry Thoreau in 1847-1848.
by Harmon D. Smith

Tinker Creek and the Waters of Walden: Thoreauvian Currents in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim
by Donna Mendelson

“Boston in the Sixties”: Rebecca Harding Davis’s View of Boston and Concord During the Civil War
by Janice Milner Lasseter

“Boston in the Sixties”
by Rebecca Harding Davis

Emerson’s Transcendental Individualism
by David Lyttle

John Muir and Thoreau’s Maine
by J. Parker Huber

“Near My Heart” After Fifty Years: Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Reminiscence of Worcester
by Kent P. Ljungquist and Anthony Conti

Neither Nonresistance Nor Violence: Thoreau’s Consistent Response to Social Evils
by Joan Cooney

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Young Men and Women of Fairest Promise: Transcendentalism in Concord
by Robert A. Gross

Thoreau’s Sauntering: The “Adventure of the Day”
by Victor Carl Friesen

“The Road to Ruins and Restoration”: Roland W. Robbins, Henry David Thoreau, and the Discovery at Walden
by Donald W. Linebaugh

Thoreau’s Domestic Economy: Double Accounts in Walden
by Etsuko Taketani

An Interview with Jane Langton at Baker Farm: May 7th and 8th, 1994
by Roberta C. Martin

A Pre-Civil War Struggle Against Capital Punishment: Charles Spear, Concord and the Case of Washington Goode
by Barry Kritzberg

“Some Private Business”
by Philip Milner

Thoreau and the Glowworms
by Francis B. Dedmond

Gauging the Value of Nature: Thoreau and His Woodchucks
by John Bird

Martha Le Baron Goddard: Forgotten Worcester Writer and Thoreau Critic
by Kent P. Ljungquist

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The Stalk of the Lotus: Concord’s Most Famous Friendship
by Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

“Captain of a Huckleberry Party”: Thoreau and a New England Ritual of Summer
by Wesley T. Mott

Convers Francis and the Concordians: Emerson, Alcott and Others
by Guy R. Woodall

Forever Wild: A Portrait of Walden Warrior Mary Sherwood
by Joel Lang

Sarah Alden Ripley: Another Concord Botanist
by Joan Goodwin

Ellery Channing: The Turning Point
by Harmon Smith

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