Voltaire (1694 – 1778) – Candide (1758) and the Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Art

Architecture

Music

Poetry

Mary Wolstencraft Shelley (1797 – 1851) – Frankenstein (1818) and Romanticism

Mary Shelley Biography Alyssa Crawford

The French Revolution Jess Stewart

Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars

American Romanticism: Transcendentalism

            Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman

Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication

William Godwin
            Romantic

Poets: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth

Romantic Music Cecily Gordon

Romantic Art

Joseph Conrad (1857 -- 1927) -- Heart of Darkness (1899): Colonialism, Impressionism and Symbolism
            Freud Chris Roske

            Impressionism and Symbolism

Impressionist Art April Davidson

Impressionist Music Eric Petersen

Poetry

Colonialism

            African Colonialism Jenni Crawford

            Middle East

            Asia

            Americas

Chinua Achebe (1930 - )  – Things Fall Apart (1959) Colonial Voices

           

            Apartheid and South Africa Lexie Lundgren

            African Art, Music, Architecture

Modern Nigeria; Oil; Ken Saro Wiwa
            Marxism

 

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)  A Room of One's Own  Modernism and Feminism

            Feminism Leanna Waalkens

            Suffrage Movement and/or Woolf Biography Esme Busch

            Jazz Steve Hanna

            Fascism Duncan Rickford

            TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

Post Modernism and Existentialism

 “Myth of Sisyphus” Danielle Boyd

Sartre

Christian Existentialism

Post Modern Art, Architecture, Film, Music...

Post-Feminism

Foucault

Derrida