ENGL 547

Spring 2014 All Classes

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Seminar Earlier American Lit

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One college course devoted entirely to an aspect of American studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 547 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39293	Lecture-Discussion	R	1:00PM -3:50PM	R	307 English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Title: Amer Colonalism & Aftermath Section Info: Topic Section R: The Psychic Life of Empire: American Colonialism and its Aftermath American studies has always had a geopolitical imaginary, whether regional, national, hemispheric, or transnational. In that tradition, this course will offer an introduction to the geography of nineteenth-century American colonialism. But following some of the best work being done in American Studies, we will also try to establish a theoretical horizon beyond the merely local, material, historical, or geographic. Our work will thus join a commitment to material culture (the history of land and things) to an account of the what we might call the psychic processes of empire, including its attachments and disavowals at both large-scale levels and at the relatively micro-level of the individual subject, who is at once a thinking, feeling, desiring person (a subject in the psychoanalytic sense, with a marked interiority) and, of course, a subject of history, the processes and practices of which inform that interiority. Primary materials will likely be drawn from the many novels, autobiographies, natural histories, travel narratives, almanacs, geographies, newspapers, engravings, photographs, and magazines that span the period from 1800-1900. And secondary readings will be broadly interdisciplinary, drawn from literary studies, history, and critical theory. The end of the course will be devoted to the circulation and discussion of student writing, with special emphasis on the methods by which we come to our readings of both the period and its artifacts. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.