Emerson, Thoreau 2 The Roots of American Transcendentalism

Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement

Professor Ashton Nichols, Ph.D.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/emerson-thoreau-and-the-transcendentalist-movement.html

We will watch and discuss one lecture each meeting.

The meeting limit is 12 people.

Full lecture list for this course:

1 Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism
2 The Roots of American Transcendentalism
3 Emerson and the Idea of America
4 Emerson and Transcendentalism
5 Emerson’s Influence
6 Thoreau—An American Original
7 Thoreau at Walden and Beyond
8 Thoreau's Politics
9 William Ellery Channing and Unitarianism
10 Theodore Parker—Social Reform in the Pulpit
11 Amos Bronson Alcott
12 Louisa May Alcott
13 Margaret Fuller and Rights for Women
14 Transcendental Women
15 Moncure Conway—Southern Transcendentalist
16 Transcendental Eccentrics
17 Transcendental Utopias—Living Experiments
18 Transcendentalism and Education
19 Thoreau, Abolition, and John Brown
20 Frederick Douglass
21 Emily Dickinson
22 Walt Whitman
23 Transcendentalism's 19th-Century Legacy
24 The Legacy in the 20th Century and Beyond