Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(63ΛΕ135) -  Αγγελική Τσέτη

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course introduces students to Transatlantic studies, the study of literary and cultural exchanges across the Atlantic-rim during the Romantic period (1767-1867). Of the many transnational connections, contacts and tensions occurring at the time, the course focuses mainly on the dialogue between Britain and America and sheds light on the social, political, philosophical and literary issues that were formative for the literatures and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. Starting with the ways in which Romanticism is structured by the transformation of the world by political upheaval and the rise of capitalism, discussions will unfold, for instance, around the counter-Enlightenment emphasis on I(ndividual) imagination; the emergence of Transcedentalism and worship of nature as inseparable from the Romantics’ preoccupation with the historical and political issues of the day (slavery, race, revolution, nationhood and America); the critique of power and human rights; and the ways in which this mutual—albeit not always equal—influence, the differences and similarities between America and England, are perceived by the separate nations themselves. The coupling of writers, poets and thinkers from both sides of the rim emphasizes America’s and England’s rushing together into the modern world with shared preoccupations and concerns, and highlights, to quote Paul Giles, the transnational interdependence of national cultures (Transatlantic Insurrections).

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Πέμπτη 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2021