ENGL 827 - Wars of the Mind:Romantic and Rational Impulses from Voltaire to World War I

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Trinity College

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In this course, we will focus on the ways in which Romantic writer re-configured many of the major tenets of European Enlightenment thought, focusing in particular on attitudes toward freedom an restraint, on the notion of the individual, on concepts of the will, and on the conception of individual identity in relationship to social process. We will read works by Voltaire, Goethe, Blake, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Thormas Mann, and Shaw. 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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