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2013-2014 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HUM 295-01 - Special Topic: Age of Revolution: 19th Century England

4 credits (Spring)
A multidisciplinary intellectual history course in the thought of the 19th century, principally England during the period of revolutionary changes in literature and the arts (Romantic poetry and music, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice or Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Shaw’s Man and Superman), in natural science (Darwin’s origin of Species), in the sciences of man (Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents), in political theory (Marx), in philosophy (Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra).

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Mease