This course will investigate intellectual and cultural responses to major events of nineteenth-century German history, including the Napoleonic Wars, the Restoration, the Revolution of 1848, the unification of Germany, the German Empire under Bismarck and Wilhelm II, and events leading to the First World War.
Outcomes: The student will be able to connect German cultural life to political and social developments, and be able to identify intellectual currents such as Romantic Germany, Idealist Germany, and Dionysian Germany.
Outcomes: The student will be able to connect German cultural life to political and social developments, and be able to identify intellectual currents such as Romantic Germany, Idealist Germany, and Dionysian Germany.