Middlebury

CMLT1002A-W16

Literature and Liberation

Literature and Liberation
When Abraham Lincoln finally met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), he is reported to have said: “So, this is the little lady that started the Civil War.” Published only one decade later, but a whole world away, Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s controversial novel What is to be Done? (1863) has been described as the single work that “supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution.” In this course we will focus on these two novels that exerted an immense impact on society, had a powerful effect on human lives, and demonstrate the power to make history.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
11346
Subject Code:
CMLT
Course Number:
1002
Section Identifier:
A

Course

CMLT 1002

All Sections in Winter 2016

Winter 2016

CMLT1002A-W16 Lecture (Katz)