A survey of German intellectual culture from the Enlightenment through Romanticism. We will explore the period through literary and theoretical texts by Lessing, Goethe, Lenz, Schiller, Hegel, Novalis, Kleist, Hoffman, Brentano and B. von Arnim. All readings in German. Format: seminar. Requirements: active class participation, two presentations and papers. No enrollment limit (expected: 8).