English 190
Research Seminar: American Transcendentalism
| Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Fall 2010 | Breitwieser, Mitchell
Breitwieser, Mitchell |
TTh 2-3:30 | note new room: 234 Dwinelle |
Other Readings and Media
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Nature and Selected Essays; Fuller, Margaret: The Essential Margaret Fuller; Thoreau, Henry David: Walden and Civil Disobedience; Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass: The First (1885) Edition; Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Blithedale Romance; Buel, Lawrence, ed.: The American Transcendentalists
Description
A close look at the internal coherences and stresses of this literary movement, with an emphasis on the intellectual and affective motives for formal innovation. Two ten-page essays and regular attendance and participation will be required.
English 190 replaced English 100 and 150 as of Fall '09. English majors may fulfill the seminar requirement for the major by taking one section of English 190 (or by having taken either English 100 or English 150 before Fall '09). Please read the paragraph on page 2 of this Announcement of Classes for more details about enrolling in, or wait-listing for, this course.
Please click here for more information about enrollment in English 190.
Other Recent Sections of This Course
fall, 2022 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
||
190/3 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/6 |
||
190/7 |
Miller, Janet
|
|
190/8 |
||
spring, 2022 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/6 |
||
190/7 |
Research Seminar: Race and Travel: Relative Alterity in Medieval Times and Places |
|
190/8 |
||
fall, 2021 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
Research Seminar: Literature on Trial: Romanticism, Law, Justice |
|
190/3 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/10 |
||
190/11 |
||
spring, 2021 |
||
190/1 |
Research Seminar: Literary Collaboration: Samuel Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth |
|
190/2 |
||
190/3 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/6 |
Research Seminar: Black Postcolonial Cultures: Real and Imagined Spaces |
|
190/7 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/9 |
||
fall, 2020 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
||
190/3 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/9 |
||
190/10 |
||
spring, 2020 |
||
190/1 |
||
190/2 |
||
190/3 |
||
190/4 |
||
190/5 |
||
190/6 |
||
190/7 |
||
190/8 |
||
190/9 |
||
190/10 |
||
Back to Semester List
University of California, Berkeley
English Department
322 Wheeler Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1030
general phone: 510-642-3467
©UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT