| Description |
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 161 pages ; 22 cm). |
| Series |
The great courses. Literature & language. English literature |
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Great courses (DVD). Literature & language.
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| System Details |
DVD. |
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Twenty-four 30 minute lectures delivered by Ashton Nichols. |
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Course no. 2598. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Emerson, Thoreau, and transcendentalism ; The roots of American Transcendentalism ; Emerson and the idea of America ; Emerson and Transcendentalism ; Emerson's influence ; Thoreau, an American original -- Disc 2. Lectures 7-12. 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 -- Disc 3. Lectures 13-18. Margaret Fuller and Rights for women ; Transcendental women ; Moncure Conway, Southern Transcendentalist ; Transcendental eccentrics ; Transcendental utopias, living experiments ; Transcendentalism and education -- Disc 4. Lectures 19-24. Thoreau, abolition, and John Brown ; Frederick Douglass ; Emily Dickinson ; Walt Whitman ; Transcendentalism's 19th Century legacy ; The legacy in the 20th Century and beyond. |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
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Transcendentalism.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. (OCoLC)fst00028085
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. (OCoLC)fst00029125
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Transcendentalism. (OCoLC)fst01154548
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| Genre/Form |
Educational films. (OCoLC)fst01726235
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Filmed lectures. (OCoLC)fst01726215
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Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
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Nonfiction films.
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Educational films.
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Filmed lectures.
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| Added Author |
Nichols, Ashton.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598032437 |
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9781598032437 |
| Music No. |
PD2598A Teaching Co. |
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