Modern World IDS2400-01 . This study of slavery in nineteenth-century America will address questions that have long preoccupied students of the South's peculiar institution. In addition, we shall listen to music and look at photographs from the nineteenth-century American South.
Enrollment is limited to sophomores and transfers.
Enrollment is limited to sophomores and transfers. This course will focus on the literary manifestation of Romanticism, with some attention to the Romantic movement in the visual arts and music. It will be particularly concerned with how Romantic literature was shaped by and helped shape the other changes of this age of revolutions. By seeing how the literature of the Romantic movement affected and was affected by the ideas and events of the 18 th and 19 th centuries, we will see how Romanticism has influenced our current ideas, not just about literature, but in far more sweeping and surprising ways. Enrollment limited to sophomores and transfers.