Mar 29, 2024  
Undergraduate Record 2017-2018 
    
Undergraduate Record 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

ITAL 4450 - Lights and Shadows: Italian 18th-Century Literature


Study of the Italian Enlightenment, in terms of its spectrum of literary/cultural phenomena. Major and lesser-known writers, and the role their works played in transforming early modern traditions into today’s forms and institutions. Among the topics considered: notions of reason and progress, uses of science, criminal/justice systems, advances in theater, opera, the popular novel, autobiography and consumer journalism in Italian.



Credits: 3