Cosmopolitanism

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course considers the relationship between nationalism and cosmopolitanism in literatures from the 19th century to the present. Begins with theories of “world-citizenship” in British Romanticism and looks at the development of these ideas across a range of cultural contexts, drawing on examples from across the Anglophone world. Authors include James Joyce, E.M. Forster, V.S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid.