LIT 465 Interdisciplinary Seminar in Romanticism

This interdisciplinary and intercultural seminar will explore the age of Romanticism in all of its manifestations: poetry, fiction, music, art and philosophy. It will begin with an exploration of the historical and theoretical background to Romanticism, exploring how thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hamann, Herder and Fichte contributed the ideas that would be developed and enacted by writers reacting to (and against) the Enlightenment. Writers will be explored thematically in a generally chronological manner, including the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Ludwig Tieck, Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Bonaventura, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Adalbert Stifter, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Aleksandr Pushkin, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, and many more. Additionally, key works of artists and composers will be considered in many of the sessions.