ENGLISH 713 / Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in the Eighteenth Century

3 unit(s)

E. Zuroski Jenkins (cross-listed as CULTR ST 713)

This course considers the role of cosmopolitanism in eighteenth-century British culture, particularly its relationship to the emergent discourses of modern nationalism and imperialism. How do authors of fiction and poetry use cosmopolitan figures to think about travel and exploration, diaspora and colonization, foreignness and exoticism, commerce, the global, the self, and the human?