This unit focuses on the ways in which the imagination has played a vital role in the formation and articulation of modern European identities. Students explore the utopian and dystopian modes of literature and thought in European cultural history as critical and constructive forms of imaginative engagement with social and political realities. Topics include secular utopias of the Renaissance; the utopian impulse in European voyages of discovery and colonialism; blue-prints for change in the modern era (socialism, communism, capitalist and anti-capitalist utopias, etc.); nineteenth-century romantic and socialist utopianism and twentieth-century science fiction and futurist utopian and... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Kati Tonkin
Prerequisites: EURO1101 Europe Now: Cultures and Identities
