The European Novel and Empire

Undergraduate

A study of major European fiction engaging with the decline of British, French, Austro-Hungarian and other European empires and with the rise of the United States, Soviet Union, and China to global ascendancy. Topics include the relationship between empire, finance capital, and cultural capital; modernism, realism, and the Cold War; literary geopolitics; rhetorics of degeneration and decline; late imperial romance and post-imperial melancholy; orientalism, exoticism and expatriation. HU W 4pm-5:55pm