Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism. The roots of American Transcendentalism -- Emerson and the idea of America. Emerson and Transcendentalism -- Emerson's influence. Thoreau : an American original -- Thoreau at Walden and beyond. Thoreau's politics -- William Ellery Channing and Unitarianism. Theodore Parker, social reform in the pulpit -- Amos Bronson Alcott. Louisa May Alcott.
Margaret Fuller and rights for women. Transcendental women -- Moncure Conway, Southern Transcendentalist. Lecture 16. Transcendental eccentrics -- Transcendental utopias : living experiments. Transcendentalism and education -- Thoreau, abolition, and John Brown. Frederick Douglass -- Emily Dickinson. Walt Whitman -- Transcendentalism's 19th-century legacy. The legacy in the 20th century and beyond.
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