Romanticism

3 units

This course studies pre-romantic themes in the works of Madame de Staël and Chateaubriand and of their evolution in the poems of Lamartine, Musset, and Vigny, the theater of Victor Hugo, and the novels of George Sand and Victor Hugo. Emphasis is placed on the emergence of a littérature du moi (literature of the self), the redefinition of the place of the artist in society after la bataille romantique, and the stylistic innovations that lead to modernism. Prereq: Fr 325 and Fr 326 or one of these courses and the equivalent WU transfer literature course from Toulouse or Paris. One-hour preceptorial required for undergraduates.