The Cult of Feeling: Empfindsamkeit, Sturm und Drang and Early Romanticism (GE0106)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-4-GE0106

This seminar will focus on the study of the literary culture of feeling in Germany from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The liberation of the senses, reflective inwardness and sentimentality were dominant cultural trends that fed into Romanticism. Of central importance are: the private expression of feeling in the epistolary novel, the struggles of the self to achieve autonomy and challenge social boundaries in the drama of the Sturm und Drang, and the relationship between the self and the transcendental, aesthetic, and spiritual aspects of human experience.

? Keywords : Sentimentalism, Storm and Stress, Early Romanticism, Enlightenment

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Honours entry. Also open to visiting students with fluent German and a background in literary studies

Subject Areas

Home subject area

European Languages and Cultures - German, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
22/09/2008	11:00	12:00	Room 4.01, David Hume Tower	Central	ALL 4th year students meet at this time

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Tutorial	Tuesday	11:10	13:00	Central

? Additional Class Information : Seminars take place in ODD weeks only: Weeks, 1,3,5 etc

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

An understanding of the development of writing in 18th and early 19th century Germany and of the key movements of Empfindsamkeit, Sturm und Drang and Romanticism.

Knowledge and understanding of a selection of texts by major writers of the period.

An understanding of the literary text as a source for the study of cultural and intellectual history.