GOVT-212 Politics and Literature (3)

Many of the best-known texts of Western literature are deeply engaged with questions of justice, politics, and the good life. This course explores what kind of human being is the most praiseworthy, how gender and race shape the lives that are possible for us to lead, and what true freedom looks like, as well as related questions through the close reading of classic works of literature. The course encourages sensitivity to texts as well as thoughtfulness about the moral and political dilemmas exemplified by them. Readings include works by Homer, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison. Usually Offered: spring.

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