Contributors -- Foreword: Emerson’s Renewing Power / John Stauffer and Steven Brown -- Introduction: Emerson as Spiritual and Social Revolutionary / Jean McClure Mudge -- The Making of a Protester. 1.1 A Legacy of Revolt, 1803-1821 / Phyllis Cole -- 1.2 Becoming an American "Adam, 1822-1835 / Wesley T. Mott -- Public and Private Revolutions. 2.1 The "New Thinking: Nature, Self, and Society, 1836-1850 / David M. Robinson -- 2.2 Dialogues with Self and Society, 1835-1860 / Jean McClure Mudge -- Emerson the Reformer. 3. A Pragmatic Idealist in Action, 1850-1865 / Len Gougeon -- Emerson’s Evolving Emphases. 4. Actively Entering Old Age, 1865-1882 / Jean McClure Mudge -- Emerson’s Legacy in America. 5. Spawning a Wide New Consciousness / Jean McClure Mudge -- Emerson in the West and East. 6.1 Europe in Emerson and Emerson in Europe / Beniamino Soressi 6.2 Asia in Emerson and Emerson in Asia / Alan Hodder -- Emerson: A Chronology -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.