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Skip to contentDepartment of EnglishMenu Close Search Undergraduate ProgramMFA in Creative WritingPhD in English & American LiteratureResearchStudent ResourcesOur PeopleLet your curiosity lead the way:Apply TodayHomeCoursesUpcoming EventsRecent NewsThe SpectacleContact Us Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&S Topics in Literature: ENGLISH LITERATURE 3525 Thanks to the global resurgence of rightwing populism, the term "fascist" has reentered serious discussions of the American present--intelligently and otherwise. This class will sidestep the charged debate over whether fascism and related forms of authoritarianism haven taken root in American soil to examine the robust tradition of American anti-authoritarianism. Instead of asking "Will it happen here?," in other words, we will ask how intellectuals with an eye on the U.S. wrote and acted to keep it from happening. We'll take up three main lines of thought along the way: historical narratives beginning with Richard Hofstadter's classic essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (1964); theoretical accounts from "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951), Hannah Arendt's commanding first American publication, to Vaughn Rasberry's "Race and the Totalitarian Century" (2016); and dystopian resistance fictions from Sinclair Lewis's more-cited-than-read "It Can't Happen Here" (1935) to Margaret Atwood's enduring "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985). These readings will help us tackle a number of pressing questions about literary study in the context of political and intellectual history, not to mention informed citizenship circa 2024. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement. Course Attributes: EN H; BU IS; AS HUM; EL GML; FA HUM; AR HUM Section 01Topics in Literature: INSTRUCTOR: MaxwellT-R 10:00 AM | TBA View Course Listing - FL2022 View Course Listing - SP2023 View Course Listing - FL2023 View Course Listing - SP2024 View Course Listing - FL2024 Quick LinksNewsEventsOur PeopleFaculty BookshelfDepartment AwardsResourcesContactAdditional information Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&SCopyright 2024 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisFollow Us Facebook Twitter Contact Us: Department of English [email protected] Visit the main Washington University in St. Louis website1 Brookings Drive / St. Louis, MO 63130 / wustl.edu