Power in 19th C France

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course is intended to introduce and examine the idea of power in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Our modern conceptions of power are in many ways rooted in the tumultuous events of the nineteenth-century, the site of numerous articulations of this phenomenon, whether political or cultural, commercial or industrial, colonial or metropolitan. Writers, artists, musicians, and philosophers grappled with these changes in works that resonate to this day. We will consider major works of nineteenth-century French narrative, along with such cultural documents as legal and sociological writings. This course is designed in conjunction with the 2020 Nineteenth-Century French Studies conference, also on the theme of power.