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Home /Roots and Influences of American Transcendentalism

Roots and Influences of American Transcendentalism

Transcendental Forerunners

The Transcendental Legacy in Literature

Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Frederick Douglass

The Transcendental Legacy in Philosophy and Religion

"Transcendental Disseminations: How a Movement Spread Its Ideas" by Robert Michael Ruehl, Syracuse University (2011)
"Heaven on Earth: the Legacy of 19th Century Transcendentalism as an Ecumenical Philosophy of Nature" by Meg Brulatour, VCU (1999)

The Transcendental Legacy in Political and Social Reform

The legacy of "Resistance to Civil Government." Shannon Riley, VCU (1999)

The Transcendental Legacy in Film

Transcendentalist Principles from Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman in the film, The Dead Poets Society by Allan Sugg, Dalarna University