Modern Humanities Week 3: Rise (and fall?) of the Modern Conception of the Self

The Romantic Sensibility

• Romanticism
• Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
• Romantic Art

Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

• Reading questions for Sorrows of Young Werther
• Text, and another copy
• Sorrows of Young Werther.com - the book in epistolary form
• Thackary, "Sorrows of Werther" - poem. Evidently Thackary wasn't all that excited about the story.
• Background of Sorrows
• Werther overview - read the book first, go to this second!
• Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress/Urge/Driving Force")
  • Brief definition, and another

Love in Modern Times

• Kinds of Love
  • Courtly Love
    • Capellanus Courtly Love
    • Madrigals of Love
    • Portrayals of Love in Medieval Literature
  • Friendship
    • Montaigne, "On Friendship"
    • Bacon, "Of Friendship"
  • Romantic Love
    • Percy Shelley, "On Love"
  • Victorian Love
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee"
  • Modern Love
    • Modern Love?
    • Love Song Lyrics
  • Love (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
• What is Liebestod?
  • Robert Browning, Porphyria's Lover - graphic version
• Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
  • Isolde's Liebestod
  • Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (OperaWorld.com)