ENGLISH 747 / Discourses of Empire 1700-1820

3 unit(s)

P. Walmsley (cross-listed CULTR ST 747 and GLOBALST 747)

This course will consider how British and Colonial literatures articulated the process of forging a world empire. Our central project will be to map the shifting identities of self and other, and metropolis and colony, throughout the eighteenth century. We will read a wide range of texts-not only novels and poems representing imperial encounters, but also travel books and early slave narratives-and the course will provide ample opportunity for reference to McMaster’s rich collection of books and periodicals from this period.