Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Mark C. Long and Sean Ross Meehan. New York: Modern Language Association, 2018.
A leader of the transcendentalist movement and one of the country’s first public intellectuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been a long-standing presence in American literature courses. Today he is remembered for his essays, but in the nineteenth century he was also known as a poet and orator who engaged with issues such as religion, nature, education, and abolition.
This volume presents strategies for placing ...