Michael Jonik is Professor of American Literature and Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is author of Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (Cambridge 2018) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook to Herman Melville. He is book reviews and special issues editor for the journal Textual Practice.

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• Introduction: Emerson's Circles Michael Jonik; 1. Emerson's Times Jeffrey Insko; 2. Spiritual Laws: Religion and Rainbows Devin Zuber; 3. Emerson and Transnational Romanticisms Jennifer Baker; 4. Nature, Ecology, Climate: Emerson's Ecopoetical Thought Laura Dassow Walls; 5. 'Allied to All': Emerson and Ethics Beyond 'Self-Reliance' Prentiss Clark; 6. Life, Form and Power in 'Experience' Michael Jonik; 7. Emerson at the Lectern and the Voiced Essay Tom F. Wright; 8. Labor, Slavery and the Civil War Sophia Forster ; 9. Democracy Johannes Voelz; 10. English Traits David LaRocca; 11. 'Numbers Wild': Emerson's Poetry and Metaphysics Danielle Follett; 12. Writing Emerson into the History of American Philosophy Joseph Urbas; 13. Emerson and Science Mark Noble; 14. Emerson's Aesthetics: The Abiding Life of Beauty Nicholas Guardiano; 15. Emerson, Asia and 'The Progress of Culture' Spencer Tricker; 16. Emerson's Late Styles Sean Ross Meehan; 17. Emersonian Aesthetics in the 20th Century Paul Grimstad.