Course Information
- Course: ENG 5890- Twentieth Century British Literature
- Professor: Dr. William Atkinson
- Semester: Fall 2024
- Offered: Thursdays- 5 pm - 8 pm
Course Description
In this class, we will consider British literature since about 1900 from a posthumanist perspective. Here, posthumanism is primarily understood to mean the belief that humanism as a philosophy and as an ideology is exhausted and that its anthropocentrism has had a baleful influence on the planet. We will be reading to identify cracks in the anthropocentric literary edifice, looking for signs of posthumanist tendencies. I’m interested in planetary re-readings of the canon, so expect to read many of the usual museum-quality writers.
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ENG 5890- Twentieth Century British Literature