Emerson, Thoreau, And The Transcendentalist Movement Part 2

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, T...

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Main Author: Nichols, Ashton, 1953-
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2006.
Series:Great courses (DVD)
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 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.