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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
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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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