Pre-Romanticism Course
This course explores how pre-romantic writers transformed nature, emotion, and subjectivity into vital literary tools. Students develop close-reading expertise, enhance source utilisation, and construct robust arguments essential for research, teaching, and advanced humanities studies, covering authors like Young, Gray, Rousseau, Diderot, Prévost, Ossian, and early Goethe.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
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What will I learn?
Gain an introduction to 18th-century texts anticipating Romanticism through studying Young, Gray, Rousseau, Diderot, Prévost, Ossian, and early Goethe. Master close reading, intertextual analysis, and bibliographic methods to develop clear theses, compare traditions, and create polished critical dossiers using primary and secondary sources.
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Develop skills
- Master close reading by decoding diction, imagery, and prosody in short passages.
- Identify key pre-romantic elements like sensibility, sublime nature, and critique of reason.
- Situate pre-romantic texts within late Enlightenment debates.
- Design scholarly corpus by selecting, dating, and annotating 18th-century European works.
- Build arguments through comparative, thesis-driven analyses across traditions.
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