Cluster Programs: War, Revolution and Culture – Transatlantic Perspectives, 1750–1850
The wars and revolutions between 1750 and 1850 mark our lives, national politics and cultural consumption to this day, because many key beliefs in Europe and the Americas regarding society, gender, and politics were forged in the fires of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, the Mexican War of Independence, the Napoleonic Wars, and the European Revolutions of 1830 and 1848. These epochal events shaped democratic and socialist forms of government, led to current understanding of human rights, and defined the body politic in nation states on both sides of the Atlantic. Literature and art reflected these wars and revolutions in their manifestations; music could provide the rousing sounds for a marching army; the writings of Beaumarchais, Jefferson, and Voltaire provided the spark to the revolutionary powder keg. Furthermore, the arts enlisted revolutionary ideologies for the very fabric of their production, whether in the paintings of a Delacroix or the novels of Mary Shelley. This course cluster presents a transdisciplinary approach to this complex and influential nexus of history, literature, and art by combining courses taught within these disciplines with a gateway course that addresses the underlying issues of war, politics and culture for this period.
HIST 268, War, Revolution and Culture: Transatlantic Perspectives (Core course) [SS]
ART 370, Visual Art in the Age of Revolution [FA]
ENGL 637, The Chief English Romantic Writers [HM]
GERM 330, Age of Goethe [HM]
HIST 457, The French Revolution [SS]
HIST 466, Modern European Intellectual History
HIST 564, Revolution and Nation-Making in America, 1763-1815 [SS]
MUSC 289, The Sounds of War and Revolution [FA]
The four Divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences, with their abbreviations:
[HM]: Humanities
[FA]: Fine Arts
[SS]: Social and Behavioral Sciences
[NS]: Natural Sciences and Mathematics