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