This comparative course explores the figuration of the French Revolution in literature and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will read and analyse several prose, dramatic and cinematic works, including by authors such as Charles Dickens, Baroness Orczy, Georg Büchner, Heiner Müller, Peter Weiss, C.L.R James, Lauren Gunderson, and filmmakers like Sofia Coppola and Peter Brook. German majors should enroll in co-location GRMN 256. German majors will have the opportunity to work on 1-2 German language texts with a separate language lab, while classroom language will otherwise be English.