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This course will investigate major themes of nineteenth-century German
history. Against the background of political and social developments such as
the Napoleonic Wars, the Restoration, the Revolution of 1848, the unification
of Germ any, the German Empire under Bismarck and Wilhelm II, and events
leading to the First World War, we will carefully consider responses to these
issues by leaders in German cultural life. Using literary, political and
philosophical texts—as well as visual arts and music—we will investigate
intellectual currents under the following headings: Storm and Stress Germany,
Romantic Germany, Idealist Germany, Young Germany, Dionysian Germany and
Wilhelmine Germany.
TENTATIVE READING LIST: (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
Secondary:
Kurt Reinhardt, Germany: 2000 Years, vol. II, The Second Empire and the
Weimar Republic
Primary:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected
Writings
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part I
G.W.F. Hegel, Reason in History
Heinrich Heine, Poetry and Prose
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology
Friedrich W. Nietzsche, A Nietzsche Reader
Heinrich Mann, Man of Straw
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