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Academic Year 2005/2006


Political Fiction
HIST 294 SP

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century attitudes toward politics, economics, society and history will be examined from works of fiction that directly criticize an existing society, or that present an alternative, sometimes fantastic, reality.

MAJOR READINGS

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

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Reading notes and three papers.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

At least one work will be read each week. All students NOT in COL must take this course for a letter grade.

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-30-2006


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