The Romantic Period

3 Credits

Development and main tenets of 19th-century French Romanticism. Various themes and genres (novel, poetry, theater, etc.) exploited by "romantic" artists. Socioeconomics and cultural matrices fostering movement. Relationship between literature and visual arts. Constructions of gendered, cultural, and artistic subjectivities. Exoticism (spatial, temporal, and mystic voyages). Representations of Paris and French society.