ENGL 1560W - Getting Emotional: Sociality, Strife, and the Romantic Self

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Brown University

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This course examines relationships between such terms as emotions, feelings, politics, and society in several key texts from 18th- and 19th-century literature. What does it mean to "get emotional"? What does it mean to "feel"? If feelings are or can be violent, are they meaningful? Can feeling be thought? This course will consider these questions in 19th-century novels, stories, poetry, and philosophical essays. Authors include: Wordsworth, Austen, Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Pater, Kant, Melville, Hofmansthal, Hume. Enrollment limited to 20.

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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