Course details

Name: ENGL - 555

Title: AMERICAN ROMANTICISM

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2020

Credits: 3

Description:
To discuss literary works of American Romantics, more specifically, of American Transcendentalists, in relationship to social, cultural, and political movements of the mid-nineteenth century. Obviously, issues of gender, race, and class will be important to our analysis. In addition, we will discuss the aesthetics of Transcendentalism—what kind of audience were these Idealist writers hoping for, and how did they define the American literary scene? How did spiritual ideas implicit in the Transcendentalist movement challenge the materialistic values of the emerging industrial nation? How did a spiritual movement (based on personal enlightenment) become a political movement?
What was the relationship between and among the writers we are studying? What was so new and innovative about the ideas expressed by Transcendentalists? Why did Emerson seem to become the center of the Transcendentalist circle; how did he become the sage of Concord—and Thoreau the hermit of Concord? And why were so many intellectuals afraid of Margaret Fuller? How did she finally find herself--outside the confines of New England, in Italy?


Last updated on 2020-04-03 By Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Schedule: Monday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No