Texts:
Emerson: Essays- Nature, Self-Reliance, The American Scholar, The Divinity School Address, The Transcendentalists, History, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, The Over-Soul, The Poet, and Experience. Fuller: Woman In The 19th Century Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience
Scholars:
Lawrence Buell
Joan Von Mehren
Wesley Mott
Joel Myerson
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
Contexts and Videos On:
The complete interactive guide to the ideas, ideals and literary voices of Emerson, Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. Trace the roots of Transcendentalism from Plotinus and Neoplatonism to Montaigne, Swedenborg, Kant, Fichte, Schlegel, Schilling, Goethe, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Investigate the social and industrial sources of Transcendentalism in America: the Industrial Revolution in New England; the Abolitionist Movement; Womans Rights; Jacksonian Democracy; and the "Trail of Tears" and Native American Rights. Examine the manifestations of the Transcendentalist Movement. Annotated bibliography, audio readings and video re-enactments.
Also available on video