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Academic Year 2000/2001

The Political Novel, 1700-1900
HIST 294 SP

Eighteenth- and 19th-century attitudes toward politics, economics, society and history will be examined from novels that directly criticize an existing society or that present an alternative, sometimes fantastic, reality.

MAJOR READINGS

Defoe, ROBINSON CRUSOE
Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Montesquieu, PERSIAN LETTERS
Voltaire, CANDIDE
Godwin, CALEB WILLIAMS
Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN
Dickens, BARNABY RUDGE
Manzoni, THE BETROTHED
Edward Bellamy, LOOKING BACKWARD
Harriet Beecher Stowe, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
Nietzsche, THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
and additional readings to be announced.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Three papers.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

One novel will be read each week. All students NOT in COL must take this course for a letter grade.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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