HIS 5072 American Transcendentalists
This course explores the origins, ideas and impact of an extraordinary literary and philosophical movement that flourished briefly in mid-19th-century New England: American Transcendentalism. Readings include selected essays of the movement's leading light, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, essays and poetry of Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's critical fiction, as well as works of historical and interpretive analysis of their Concord community.