The focus of this seminar will be an major 19th Century novels, in light of 'World Systems Theory,' as reflected in the work of Fernand Braudel, Giovanni Arrighi, Immanuel Wallerstein, and others.  The particular issues of most immediate relevance pertain to the increasingly familiar concept of the Long Durée, or the Long Century, but with quite specific focus on the historiographical underpinnings and theoretical implications of work particularly by Braudel and Arrighi, to bring longer historical durations, integrating (among other things) economic history, and a broad consideration of social sciences in intellectual formulations concerning historical processes and cultural practices. It should be noted that we will refer only briefly to preliminary work by Franco Maretti, to examine more particular historiographical questions that pertain specifically to 19th century novels.

Main texts:
NOVELS:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile, or Education
Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Charlotte Bronte: Shirley
Flaubert: Sentimental Education
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Henry James: The Ambassadors

WORLD SYSTEMS THEORY
Fernand Braudel: An Introduction to Civilizations
Immanuel Wallerstein: Introduction to World Systems Theory
Giovanni Arrighi: The Long Twentieth Century
Arrighi, Terrence Hopkins, Immanuel Wallterstein, Anti-Systemic Movements