Course No. 2598 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Ashton Nichols Dickinson College Ph.D., University of Virginia 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