ENGL 4490

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ENGL 4490
Wordsworth and Rousseau

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This course brings together two great writers of violently different styles, temperaments, and relationships to the French Revolution. Rousseau's writings will be provided in English as well as in French. Wordsworth's poem on "the growth of a poet's mind" will be contrasted with Rousseau's revelatory Confessions: we shall ask about how they reflect guilt, represent happiness, and convey experiences of time and memory. We shall read Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and Wordsworth's manifestos for his poetry. Reading closely some of Wordsworth's poems, we will consider why it makes sense to think of them—like Rousseau's late autobiographical essays—as "reveries of a solitary walker." No previous knowledge of Rousseau, Wordsworth, or Romanticism is required.

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4610

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16572 ENGL 4490   SEM 101

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