Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Emerson for the Twenty-first Century: Global Perspectives on an American Icon -- I. Emerson, Europe, and Beyond -- Emerson, Literary Globalism, and the Circularity of Influence -- The Theme of Mind in Emerson's English Traits -- Beauty Meets Beast: Emerson's English Traits -- A Tale of Three Cities: Emerson, Louis-Philippe, and Transatlantic Uses of Great Men -- East of Emerson -- Transcendental Brahmin: Emerson's "Hindu" Sentiments -- "We want men ... who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality": Ralph Waldo Emerson's Vision of An American World Literature -- II. Emerson and Science -- Paths to Nature: Emerson's Early Natural History Lectures -- Nocturnal Outings: Emerson on Dreams -- British Science, The London Lectures, and Emerson's Philosophical Reorientation -- "Every truth tends to become a power": Emerson, Faraday, and the Minding of Matter -- III. Emerson Thinking -- Emerson on Nature and The Rhetoric of Thought -- Seeing Metaphors -- Emerson's Autobiographical Philosophy -- Death, Love, and Emerson's Poetry -- Emerson and Postmodernism -- IV. Emerson and Activism -- Transcendentalism, Transnationalism, and Antislavery Violence: Concord's Embrace of John Brown -- "Only Justice Satisfies All": Emerson's Militant Transcendentalism -- Simular Man: Emerson and Cosmopolitan Identity -- The Guano of History -- Abstracts -- Contributors -- Index.