ENGL 90262 - The Atlantic World: 1650-1800

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This cross-disciplinary graduate seminar surveys some of the major primary texts, ideas, and events in the transatlantic culture of England and British America. These years witness a set of sweeping transformations sometimes bundled together under the sign of "modernity" in this course,we consider the ways in which emergent concepts of racial identity, political belonging, constitutional law and political economy are mediated in the domains of literary, theatrical, and political culture. Writers will include Hobbes, Locke, Sidney, Dryden, Marvell, Selden, Behn, Tompson, Addison, Defoe, Hume, Equiano, Jefferson, Wheatley, Paine, Burke; secondary readings will be drawn from the work of scholars and theorists such as J.G.A. Pocock, Steve Pincus, Reinhard Koselleck, Hans Blumenburg, Jonathan Sheehan, David Armitage, Joseph Roach, NIcholas Hudson, Paul Gilroy, Kathleen Wilson, Michael McKeon, Laura Brown, and others. The seminar welcomes early modern specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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