{"id":29678,"date":"2017-09-27T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T07:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=29678&lang=en"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:29:32","slug":"aspects-of-american-romanticism-201718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=29678&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Aspects of American Romanticism (2019\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Jelena \u0160esni\u0107
\nLiterary Seminar (2nd\/3rd year): Aspects of American Romanticism (A, 19th c.)
\n<\/strong>Winter 2019\/2020
\nMon, 8:45-9:30 (A-105)
\nWed, 10:15-11:45 (A-105)
\nOffice: B-018
\nPhone: 4092060
\nE-mail: jsesnic@ffzg.hr<\/a><\/span>
\nOffice hours: Mon, 12:30-13:30; Thur 11-12<\/span><\/p>\n

Course description:<\/strong> The period spans the decades from the 1820s to approximately the 1860s marked by the flowering of national literature in post-revolutionary times; the adoption and americanization of European ideas in so-called New England Transcendentalism, and the emergence of alternative (women, African Americans, commoners) voices. Alternatively called the American Renaissance, the period testifies to the coming-of-age of American literature. The texts are a representative selection of the unprecedented surge of creative energy that left no aspect of social and personal life untouched (from religion, education, women’s rights to politics and abolition), and will thus guide is in our examination of the past to which the American present owes so much.<\/span><\/p>\n

Requirements:<\/strong> regular attendance; participation in class discussions; in-class and home assignments; seminar paper 6-7 pp. (ca 2000 words); mid-term + final test (continuous assessment, mandatory)<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected works:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

R.W. Emerson: selection of essays
\nWalt Whitman: Leaves of Grass<\/em> (poetry, selection)
\nHenry David Thoreau: Walden<\/em> (selection); selected essays
\nMargaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century<\/em> (essay)
\nCatharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie<\/em> (novel)
\nFrederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
\n<\/em>Herman Melville: Typee<\/em> (novel; selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Readings<\/strong> (alterations possible)<\/span><\/p>\n

October<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Introduction: key concepts; lit-historical context<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Emerson: selected essays (\u201eThe American Scholar\u201c, \u201eSelf-Reliance\u201c)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Emerson: \u201eThe Poet\u201c; Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass<\/em> (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Thoreau: Walden<\/em> (selected chapters)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5: Thoreau: Walden<\/em> (selected chapters)<\/span><\/p>\n

November<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Thoreau: \u201eCivil Disobedience\u201c, \u201eA Plea for Captain John Brown\u201c (essays)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Fuller: \u201eAutobiographical romance\u201c, \u201eSelf-definitions\u201c (excerpts)<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth-Century<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Fuller: Woman<\/em>. *Mid-term.*<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Sedgwick: Hope Leslie<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

December<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Sedgwick: Hope Leslie<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Douglass: The Narrative<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Douglass: cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

January<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Melville: Typee<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Melville, cont. *Seminar paper submission.*<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Evaluation. *Final test.*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Secondary readings:<\/span> reading material will be provided in digital form on Omega.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional reading:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad<\/em>, Madison: The U of Wisconsin P, 1978. (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pease, Donald. Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context<\/em>, Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987. (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pease, Donald, ed. National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives,<\/em> Durham: Duke UP, 1994. (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rowe, John Carlos. At Emerson\u2019s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

New York: Columbia UP, 1997. (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Warren, Joyce, ed. The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers<\/em>. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1993. (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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