Course Description

37-334 British Imperial Culture F(3-0) [0.50]

This multi-genre course introduces students to the literature of British imperialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The course will consider the changing relationship between nation, empire, and colony by examining literary representations of such topics as: orientalism; travel writing; the construction of race; the representation of trade; the popular literature of empire; children's literature; the question of the other. Reading-intensive course. (Offered in even-numbered years.)

Prerequisites: 37-106 or 37-120.

Course Profile

1998-99 Undergraduate Calendar