Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
Title:
Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
Author:
Nichols, Ashton, 1953-
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Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2006]
©2006
Physical Description:
12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (19 cm.).
Summary:
A series of 24 Lectures on the New England Transcendalist Movement delivered by Ashton Nichols, Professor of English at Dickinson College.
General Note:
Lectures.
Compact disc.
Language:
English
Contents:
Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism. 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. Legacy in the 20th century and beyond.
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ISBN:
9781598032420
Format :
Audiobook on CD
