Reform, Diversity, and Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Romanticism
Martin Lüthe
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This lecture course deals with the entanglement of Romanticism, cultural nationalism, and practices of political reform, focusing on documents, debates, and literary works from the period in-between the Jacksonian era and the Civil War. Topics include: “Indian Removal,” transcendentalism, the importance of Moby-Dick and the media form of the novel, debates on slavery and national expansion, sentimentalism and the abolitionist imagination, proslavery philosophies, the slave narrative, and other issues. The lecture course serves as "Grundlagenvorlesung" of Culture-Module B in the M.A. program.
Registration: all participants must be registered via Blackboard and Campus Management before the first session. If you cannot register online, or if you would like to participate, but cannot attend the first session, please contact Dr. Lu¨the before the beginning of the term.
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