English 256cr. Comparative Romanticism: Practice and Theory

Instructor: James Engell
Wednesdays, 12:00-2:00 pm | Location: Barker 269
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Selected texts in three national traditions: Coleridge, Wordsworth, Hazlitt, and Keats in English; Kant, Schiller, and Goethe in German; Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman in American Literature. Additional writers may include Robert Lowth, the Schlegels, Novalis, Schleiermacher, and Margaret Fuller. Attention to exchange among these literatures. Additional current scholarship and criticism