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Summary
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... Full description
- 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.