ENGL 325 - The Romantic Tradition

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Saint John Fisher University

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Romanticism is a comprehensive label given to movements in politics, philosophy, and art rooted in the mid to late eighteenth century. While the range of its ideas and expressions is vast, the Romantic outlook can be broadly characterized by three principles: the central importance of the individual (and the individual's perceptions, emotions, and attitudes) in life and art; the value of imagination as a source of experience and even understanding, a faculty to be stimulated and nurtured, and a measure of genius; and a reverence for nature as a revelation of truth, a source of both wisdom and ideas of form, whether social or aesthetic. This course examines the expression and evolution of these principles in selections of texts representing the Romantic tradition in England and America, from its origins in the eighteenth century to its echoes in the twentieth.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.sjfc.edu

Phone Number:

(585) 385-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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