...Noah Warren Noah Warren, “Who Owns ‘Baker Farm’?” (pp. 270–301) The politics of the “Baker Farm” chapter of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854), in which Thoreau’s narrator racializes and demeans a family of Irish immigrants, have troubled critics, whose explanations have tended to invoke Thoreau’s...

...Seth McKelvey Seth McKelvey, “‘But one kind’ of Life: Thoreau’s Subjective Theory of Value in Walden ” (pp. 448–472) Literary scholars generally take for granted Henry David Thoreau’s hostility to market exchange in Walden (1854). I argue, however, that Thoreau anticipates the subjective theory...