{"id":47785,"date":"2025-08-28T10:33:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=47785"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:33:51","slug":"aspects-of-american-romanticism-25-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=47785&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Aspects of American Romanticism (25\/26)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:<\/strong> Aspects of American Romanticism (A, 19th c.)
\nInstructor:<\/strong>Dr Jelena \u0160esni\u0107
\nECTS credits: <\/strong>6
\nLanguage: <\/strong>English
\nDuration: <\/strong>Semester 3 or 5
\nStatus: <\/strong>elective
\nEnrolment requirements: <\/strong>enrolment in 3rd or 5th semester
\nCourse schedule:<\/strong> Mon, 8:45-9:30 (A-105); Wed, 10:15-11:45  (A-105)
\nOffice:<\/strong> B-018
\nPhone:<\/strong> 01-4092060
\nE-mail:<\/strong> jsesnic@m.ffzg.hr
\nOffice hours:<\/strong> pon, 12-13 p.m.; \u010det: 10-11 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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

\nRequirements:<\/strong> regular attendance; participation in class discussions; in-class and home assignments; seminar paper; mid-term + final test (continuous assessment)<\/span><\/p>\n

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

R.W. Emerson: selection of essays<\/span><\/p>\n

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (selection of poetry)<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry David Thoreau: Walden (selection); selected essays<\/span><\/p>\n

Herman Melville: short stories (selection) (\u201cThe Piazza\u201d; \u201cBartleby, the Scrivener\u201d; from The Encantadas: Sketches One and Two)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Margert Fuller: Summer on the Lakes (travel narrative)<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (slave narrative)<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Buell, Lawrence, ed. The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings. Modern Library Classics, 2006. (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Phillips, Christopher, ed. Literature of the American Renaissance. Cambridge UP, 2018. (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Reynolds, Larry J. The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature. Routledge, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Warren, Joyce, ed. The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Rutgers UP, 1993. (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

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