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Approaches to teaching Thoreau's Walden and other works /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schneider, Richard J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1996.
Series:Approaches to teaching world literature ; [55].
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Study and teaching.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862. > Walden.
Walden Woods (Mass.) > In literature.
Solitude in literature.
Nature in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Materials / Richard J. Schneider
  • Pt. 2. Approaches. Walden and the construction of the American renaissance / Linck C. Johnson
  • Thoreau and Anglo-European romanticism / Frederick Garber
  • "Extra vagant" education : teaching Walden in the context of transcendentalism / T.S. McMillin
  • "Where I lived" : the environs of Walden / William Howarth
  • The many paths to and from Walden / Richard Lebeaux
  • Reader responses to Walden : a study of undergraduate reading patterns / Richard Dillman
  • Teaching Thoreau as a visionary thinker / Robert Franciosi
  • Reading the garden : excursions into Walden / Frank J. McGill
  • Reclaiming Thoreau's humor for the classroom / Michael D. West
  • "What are you doing out there?" : teaching Thoreau to college freshmen / Stanley S. Blair
  • Walden and awakening : Thoreau in a sophomore American literature survey course / Scott Slovic
  • Teaching Walden as transcendental strip tease art / Annette M. Woodlief
  • The privileged protester : teaching Thoreau to two-year college students / Deborah T. Meem
  • "Baker Farm" and historicism : the rainbow's arch / Leonard N. Neufeldt
  • Walden : text, context, pretext / Henry Golemba
  • The genres of a week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Stephen Adams
  • "Civil disobedience" and the problem of Thoreau's "peaceable revolution" / Michael Meyer
  • "Civil disobedience" (or is it "resistance to civil government"?) in a composition course / Laraine Fergenson
  • "Life without principle" and Cape Cod as foils to Walden / Richard J. Schneider
  • Thoreau's "Walking" and the ecological imperative / David M. Robinson
  • Teaching Thoreau's Journal / H. Daniel Peck
  • Thoreau in the wilderness / David G. Fuller
  • "Monarch of all I survey" : Thoreau among engineering students / Wesley T. Mott
  • Sauntering after sixty : Thoreau in the elderhostel program / Gordon V. Boudreau.