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Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist movement, [taught by] Ashton Nichols

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Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist movement

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[taught by] Ashton Nichols

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Few movements in American social and intellectual history have been as influential as the cluster of ideas which have come to be called Transcendentalism. From Ralph Waldo Emerson's "self-reliant soul" and Henry David Thoreau's "different drummer" to modern ideas about individualism and democracy, Transcendentalism has had a powerful impact on central aspects of American life. The course begins with a study Emerson and Thoreau, the two figures at the heart of the movement, and then explores a wide range of engaging individuals: educational activists, literary figures and social reformers, all of whose ideas contributed to reforms and ways of thinking that are still present today

Part 1: Lecture 1. Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism -- Lecture 2. The roots of American Transcendentalism -- Lecture 3. Emerson and the idea of America -- Lecture 4. Emerson and Transcendentalism -- Lecture 5. Emerson's influence -- Lecture 6. Thoreau -- an American original -- Lecture 7. Thoreau at Walden and beyond -- Lecture 8. Thoreau's politics -- Lecture 9. William Ellery Channing and Unitarianism -- Lecture 10. Theodore Parker -- social reform in the pulpit -- Lecture 11. Amos Bronson Alcott -- Lecture 12. Louisa May AlcottPart 2: Lecture 13. Margaret Fuller and rights for women -- Lecture 14. Transcendental women -- Lecture 15. Moncure Conway -- southern transcendentalist -- Lecture 16. Transcendental eccentrics -- Lecture 17. Transcendental utopias -- living experiments -- Lecture 18. Transcendentalism and education -- Lecture 19. Thoreau, abolition, and John Brown -- Lecture 20. Frederick Douglass -- Lecture 21. Emily Dickinson -- Lecture 22. Walt Whitman -- Lecture 23. Transcendentalism's 19th-century legacy -- Lecture 24. The legacy in the 20th century and beyond

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