TERM 1

Week 1: Introduction to the module and its objectives

 

UNIT 1: The Black Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions

• Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; comprising Three Voyages Round the World (1817)
• Herman Melville, Benito Cereno (1855)
• C.L.R. James, selections from The Black Jacobins (1938)
• Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (2014)
• Primary source documents (in translation) related to the slave revolt on the Tryal in 1806

 

UNIT 2: England in 1819

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘England in 1819,’ ‘Prometheus Unbound,’ and A Philosophical View of Reform; John Keats, Ode to Psyche; Lord Byron, from Don Juan (all 1819)

• Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)

• “The Scene of Reading in 1819” and selections from James Chandler, England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (1998)

• Mike Leigh dir., Peterloo (2018)

 

TERM 2

UNIT 3: India in 1857

• William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, In the Year 1858-9 (1859, repr. 2010)
• John William Kaye, The History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-8 (1864-76) – excerpts
• Indian fiction in English, e.g. Soshee Chunder Dutt, Shunker (1885), G.A. Henty, ‘A Pipe of Mystery’ (1898)
• Tapti Roy, The Politics of a Popular Uprising: Bundelkhand in 1857 (1994)
• Karl Marx, “On Imperialism in India” (1853-1858)

UNIT 4: The Harlem Renaissance

• Alain Locke ed., The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925)
• Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to Younger Negro Artists (1926)
• Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928)
• Ma Rainey, “Prove It On Me Blues” (1928) and other selections
• W.E.B. DuBois, Dark Princess: A Romance (1928)
• Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (1941)

 

TERM 3

UNIT 5: Global 1968 or 9/11

• Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers (2003)

• Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)

• Selections from The 9/11 Commission Report

 

Week 23: Module Review