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From Romantic to Decadent
R. Cappuccio, Instructor
Introduction
Romanticism was a movement in philosophy and literature. It was based on the ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau who believed that man in a natural setting was happiest. This man was essentially good. Perfection of man's nature was possible through his relationship with Nature.
The Decadent movement promoted the idea of art for art's sake. Artifice was all.
Question & Task
How do these philosophies and the works they spawned hold up today? You'll be paging through a number of web resources in order to evaluate how Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the lyical poetry of William Wordsworth and his circle, and The Picture of Dorian Gray affect your personal philosophy.
Specifically your aims are:
1. To utilize resources on the web in relationship with your reading of Shelley, Wilde, and William Wordsworth;
2. To communicate specific ideas with members of the on-line community.
The Process and Resources
You must keep a print ("Guttenberg") portfolio of what you have learned in the form of emails or printouts of on-line discussions with the group you form in class. These printouts must be on-topic. Your discussions must include aspects of the literature you've read, and the relevancy of web sites you've discovered.
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