The Study of American Transcendentalism and Its Impact

FAIN: FS-10462-76

SUNY Research Foundation, College at Geneseo (Geneseo, NY 14454-1401)
Walter R. Harding (Project Director: January 1977 to present)

To study American Transcendentalism—its background, rise and decline, with an emphasis on Thoreau and Emerson. The seminar will also examine minor transcendentalists and the impact of transcendentalism on 20th century figures as varied as Charles Ives, Robert Frost and Martin Luther King.