Join us in a close reading of the canon of English language maritime literature while we explore themes of human freedom and authority, risk and reward, eternity and mortality, secularism and religious tradition, and humankind’s perennial listlessness. In this course, we will focus on works of early to late modernity and take note of our genre’s proclivity to foretell the elasticity and amorphism of our post-modern epoch as illustrated by the biography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
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