Professor Maryellen Bieder
email: bieder@indiana.edu

TR 4:00pm - 5:15pm/section #4368/3 cr./ Ballantine Hall 141

Spanish Enlightenment and Romanticism

The Enlightenment and Romanticism represent two fundamentally
different ways of thinking about language, literature, the
individual, and the nation. We will look briefly at Enlightenment
thought in Feijóo's TEATRO CRÍTICO and in the plays of Fernández de
Moratín before moving on to the origins and development of Romantic
themes, motifs and figures that resonate in different genres
throughout the remainder of the 19th century. In addition to sampling
as many genres as possible–essay, drama (DON ÁLVARO, DON JUAN
TENORIO), poetry (Espronceda, Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro), relato
(NOCHES LÚGUBRES), novel (LA GAVIOTA)–we will consider several recent
interpretations of Romanticism (Susan Kirkpatrick, Philip Silver) and
survey the available bibliography. Our focus will be the invention of
Spain and Spanish nationalism in the 19th century.