Pre-Romanticism Course
Explore how pre-romantic writers turned nature, emotion, and subjectivity into powerful literary tools. Build close-reading skills, sharpen your use of sources, and craft stronger arguments for research, teaching, and advanced work in the humanities.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Pre-romanticism Course offers a focused introduction to key 18th-century texts that anticipate Romanticism. You will study Young, Gray, Rousseau, Diderot, Prévost, Ossian, and early Goethe while learning close reading, intertextual analysis, and bibliographic skills. Build a clear thesis, compare traditions, and produce a polished, well-argued critical dossier grounded in primary and secondary sources.
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Develop skills
- Close reading mastery: decode diction, imagery, and prosody in short passages.
- Pre-romantic toolkit: identify sensibility, sublime nature, and critique of reason.
- Historical framing: situate pre-romantic texts within late Enlightenment debates.
- Scholarly corpus design: select, date, and annotate key 18th-century European works.
- Argument building: craft comparative, thesis-driven analyses across traditions.
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