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Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist movement

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Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist movement

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The great courses. Literature & language. English literature

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, Transcendentalism has had a powerful impact on central aspects of American life. The course begins with a study Emerson and Thoreau, the two figures at the heart of the movement, and then explores a wide range of engaging individuals: educational activists, literary figures and social reformers, all of whose ideas contributed to reforms and ways of thinking that are still present today

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