CLL 191 - (LT) Romanticism

Semester Hours: 3 or 4

This course is a sampler, introducing some of the defining works of Romanticism,” the return to nature” movement. Beginning with a redacted version of Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (1755), then followed by Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), MaryShelley’ss Frankenstein (1818;1831), and English Romantic poetry between 1789 and 1824 (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats), it concludes with the groundbreaking prose poem collection of Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen (1860), which heralds a new”decadent” phase of Romanticism, set in the opiated quarters and streets of bohemian Paris. This counterculture shapes the style of all subsequent art movements. It is the first truly “modern” movement, and its themes continue to influence culture today. 

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