Dr. Castellano 3 credits

          This course will analyze and compare French, German, and British Romantic texts. All texts will be taught in English translation, and readings will be supplemented with articles about Romanticism as an aesthetic and political phenomenon.  Readings may include:

Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust
Schiller, The Robbers
Heine, Songs of Love and Grief  
Holderlin, Hymns to the Night
Hoffmann, Kleist, and Eichendorff’s short stories and fairy tales
Rousseau, Reveries of Solitary Walker
Chateaubriand, Atala and René
George Sand, Indiana
Wollstonecraft, Maria, Or the Wrongs of Women
DeQuincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater

This class is intended for students with some familiarity with British Romanticism. 

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