Intro to Nineteenth-Century German Literature

Literary works in their historical and cultural contexts. Romanticism, responses to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of nationalism and the unification of Germany, the tension between science and religion, nihilism, social transformation. Authors include Tieck, Kleist, Buchner, Heine, Keller, Schnitzler. Taught in German. Prerequisites: Coursework on the German 120-level or equivalent