Course description

The course focuses on the revolutionary, creative impulses embodied in a series of works of literature and thought that have regularly been appraised as eminent and influential and that have licensed vital speculation, moral and political change, and artistic adventurousness since their first appearance. In what ways did these works disrupt and transform their worlds? What challenges do they throw out to us now? All the works studied on the course are important, having shaped thinking, feeling, and imagining in numerous spheres of human life. We will consider why and how it is that some works of the imagination or intellect have come to be considered great, and whether or not they are still relevant.

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