The Rise and Fall of Empire
Our literary selections will explore genre, history, culture, and thought from c. 1785 to the early 21st century, while also learning about England’s development, rise, and fall as the first Western industrialized superpower. The British Empire provided a blueprint for future power-hungry nations, and in its wake, left many questions surrounding slavery, colonialism, and imperialism. The Empire changed the globe geographically, economically, educationally, artistically, and dominate language used then and today. Why study narrative imagination? Martha Nussbaum opines, “In these various ways, narrative imagination is an essential preparation for moral interaction. Habits of empathy and conjecture conduce to a certain type of citizen and a certain form of a community: one that cultivates a sympathetic responsiveness to another’s needs, and understands the way circumstances shape those needs, while respecting separateness and privacy” (Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education).
TR 11:00-12:15 F2F
Fall 2026
Dr. James Ivory
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