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June 2, 2018

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

McIntyre Amy

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonEdited 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 ...