Approaches Western political discourses through major texts of 19th-century literature. Provides an introduction to socialism, anarchism, liberalism, and communism, and relates them to questions of literary production, arguing that the literary and the political imaginations are intimately related. Literary texts studied include fiction by Zola, Gaskell, Dickens, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Chernyshevsky, and Conrad, and poetry by French and British writers.
Course Master:
Term:
Fall 2025
Discipline:
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits:
4 credits
Type:
CCI
Level:
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?:
No
Pre-requisites:
None
Co-requisites:
None
