Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Napoleonic Era & Tolstoy
Term
2022A
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML236401
Course number integer
236
Meeting times
TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM
Meeting location
BENN 401
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Peter I. Holquist
Description
In this course we will read what many consider to be the greatest book in world literature. This work, Tolstoy's War and Peace, is devoted to one of the most momentous periods in world history, the Napoleonic Era (1789-1815). We will study both the novel and the era of the Napoleonic Wars: the military campaigns of Napoleon and his opponents, the grand strategies of the age, political intrigues and diplomatic betrayals, the ideologies and human dramas, the relationship between art and history. How does literature help us to understand this era? How does history help us to understand this great novel?
Course number only
236
Cross listings
HIST333401, REES240401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No