Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Xenocitizens -- Part I: Illiberal Ontologies -- 1. Emerson's Operative Mood -- 2. Agitating Margaret Fuller -- Part II: Illiberal Ecologies -- 3. Thoreau's Militant Vegetables -- 4. Unadjusted Emancipations -- Epilogue: Care, There and Now -- Notes -- Index