Table of Contents:
  • Walden : climbing the canon / Robert Sattelmeyer
  • Lakes of light : modes of representation in Walden / H. Daniel Peck
  • Thoreau and idealism : face to face to a fact / David M. Robinson
  • The cimeter's "sweet" edge : Thoreau, contemplation, and violence / Larry J. Reynolds
  • Following Thoreau's instincts / William Rossi
  • Thoreau's materialism : from Walden to Wild fruits / Lance Newman
  • Thoreau, Homer, and community / Robert Oscar Lopez
  • And what became of your philosophy then? : women reading Walden / Sarah Ann Wider
  • Walden and the Georgic mode / Michael G. Ziser
  • Thoreau's divide : rediscovering the environmentalist/agriculturalist debate in Walden's "Baker Farm" / Robert Cummings
  • Leaving Walden / Dana Phillips.