ENGLISH 90mm - 1850s: The Making of Modernity in Western Culture: Seminar

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This transnational course explores the emergence of modern life in the west, reflected by the canonical texts published (or translated into English) from 1850 to 1861. Points of focus include the aesthetics of freedom and bondage; the rise of realism and liberalism; the intersection between consciousness and material conditions; conceptions of progress, history, and desire. Authors include Marx, Darwin, Mill, Lincoln and Douglas; Tennyzon, Whitman, Dickenson; Douglass, Jacobs, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson; Balzac, Flaubert, Turgenev, Dickens, Eliot.

Credits:

4.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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