CORE 002 SC - Early Modern Remakes

If streaming platforms and bestseller lists are any indication, we may very well be living in, as the New York Times suggests, “a golden age of historical fiction.” This seminar asks why and how contemporary literature, art, and film use the literatures and cultures of early modern Europe (c.1500-1800) as a space for reimagining questions of history, identity, and cultural memory. Focusing on the French- and English-speaking worlds of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, we ask how contemporary engagements with the early modern past help us to reframe, redescribe, and otherwise reimagine the past, and how, in turn, that past might help us to understand our present moment.

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