Samuel Pickering

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Samuel Pickering is affiliated with the following schools: Sewanee: The University of the South, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, University of Connecticut

Why Is Samuel Pickering Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Samuel F. "Sam" Pickering Jr. is a writer and professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was an inspiration for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. Pickering has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.

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Samuel Pickering's Published Works

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John Locke and children's books in eighteenth-century England (1984) (58)
Modifying Children's Gender-Typed Musical Instrument Preferences: The Effects of Gender and Age (2001) (39)
Responding to free response examination questions: computer versus pen and paper (2002) (36)
Moral Instruction and Fiction for Children, 1749–1820 (1993) (25)
The Function of Criticism in Children's Literature (1982) (9)
Establishing and applying performance standards for curriculum-based examinations (2012) (8)
The Grave Leads But To Paths Of Glory: Deathbed Scenes in American Children's Books, 1800-1860 (1979) (4)
The Essence of Style (2015) (3)
The Art of Reproduction (1995) (3)
A Boy's Own War (1975) (2)
The effect of gender role models on children ' s musical instrument preferences (2013) (2)
Let It Ride (1991) (2)
E.E. Cummings' Pilgrim's Progress (1978) (1)
Interview with Sam Pickering (2003) (1)
Big Bird of Sesame Street: An Interview (1979) (1)
Southern Excursions: Views on Southern Letters in My Time (review) (2004) (1)
Letters to a Teacher (2004) (1)
The Right Distance (1987) (1)
A Little Fling: And Other Essays (1999) (0)
James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow: Their Juvenile Books and Chapbooks. S. Roscoe , R. A. Brimmell (1982) (0)
“THE MOST ‘HARUM-SCARUM’ SORT OF NOVEL WE HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED”: MARRYAT'S “THE KING'S OWN” AND SHANDYISM (1974) (0)
Assaying the Essay (2011) (0)
Winter Dreams (2011) (0)
Puritans and Picaros (2015) (0)
The best of Pickering (2004) (0)
The Last Book (2001) (0)
A Conversation with Sam Pickering (2006) (0)
The Liberal Arts (2013) (0)
Southern Recollections (2007) (0)
One Grand, Sweet Song (2016) (0)
New and Recent Southern Writing (2021) (0)
Walkabout Year: Twelve Months in Australia (1995) (0)
Storied Nashville (2011) (0)
Dreamtime: A Happy Book (2011) (0)
Shaking off the Trammels of the World (2008) (0)
Eric Newby and the Literature of Travel (2007) (0)
Waltzing the Magpies: A Year in Australia (2004) (0)
Interview with Sam Pickering (2003) (0)
Quicksands of Talk (2016) (0)
Contributors' Notes (2004) (0)
Rich Bright Days: Six Writers on Nature and Life (2022) (0)
Wanton palfreys and glittering casinos (1995) (0)
The Eyes Have It (2010) (0)
Deprived Of Unhappiness (1998) (0)
Field Guides are Lenses (2007) (0)
Walking Well (2009) (0)
Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do (2007) (0)
"Surprised by Joy" (2009) (0)
Deep Listening and Time Passing: Five Recent Nonfiction Books of Note (2023) (0)
Collected in 2020—Recent Essay and Story Collections of Note (2021) (0)
Rational Reading Animals (2011) (0)
A Cruise with Kipling (2010) (0)
On the Genteel (2005) (0)
Children's Literature (2017) (0)
: Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832. . Alan Richardson. (1996) (0)
Tom Jones as a Children's Book in the Eighteenth Century (2009) (0)
Terrible Sanity (2019) (0)
Habituated Eye (2016) (0)
Writing Maketh an Exact Man (2010) (0)
Index Volume CXXI, 2013 (2013) (0)
Fall (2011) (0)
Field Notes (2012) (0)
God’s Apology (2009) (0)
The End of Term (2011) (0)
Dog Days (1984) (0)
Roaming the Rough Places with Paul Theroux (2015) (0)
Tom Swift & Company: "Boys' Books" by Stratemeyer and Others. John T. Dizer Jr.Stratemeyer Pseudonyms and Series Books: An Annotated Checklist of Stratemeyer Syndicate Publications. Deidre Johnson (1983) (0)
Eggheads and butterflies (1993) (0)
Book Review:Here Comes Dickens: The Imagination of a Novelist John Carey (1975) (0)
Pedagogica Deserta: Memoir of a Fulbright Year in Syria. (1981) (0)
Continuing Education (1986) (0)
Discerning the Infinite in Common Things (2013) (0)
High Table-Talk (2013) (0)
Novelistic Tapestries (2008) (0)
Contributors (1959) (0)
Capturing the World, Connecting Past and Present (2011) (0)
The Last Exam (2012) (0)
Poetry at the Breakfast Table (2013) (0)
Still Life (1990) (0)
Dog Days (2004) (0)
All My Days Are Saturdays (2014) (0)

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