Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist movement

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 Alcott.

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.