The complete interactive guide to the ideas, ideals, and literary voices of Emerson, Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. With video segments on the lives of the authors. Primary texts unabridged and completely searchable by word, phrase, or subject index include the following: Emerson: Nature, "The American Scholar," "The Divinity School Address," "The Transcendentalist," "History," "Self-Reliance," "Compensation," "Spiritual Laws," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet," and "Experience." Thoreau: Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and "Walking." Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Trace the roots of Transcendentalism from Plotinus and Neoplatonism to Swedenborg, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Goethe, Coleridge, and Carlyle. Learn more about the religious influence of Calvinism, Arminianism, Unitarianism, the Quakers, and Jakob Boehme. Investigate the social and political sources of Transcendentalism in America: the Abolitionist Movement; Women’s Rights; Jacksonian Democracy; and the "Trail of Tears." Examine the manifestations of the Transcendentalist Movement, including "The Transcendentalist Club," the Dial, Brook Farm, Horace Greeley, and The Lyceum and the Lecture Circuit. Annotated Bibliography • Internet Connection • Full Print Functions The CD-ROM can be used with either Windows or Macintosh.
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