ENGL 4624

This course will explore from multiple points of view why ruins are so popular: whether those be architectural, literary, or political, or all of these simultaneously. We will read poetry, novels, and look at paintings of ruins. Although the class mostly focuses on the Romantic era in Britain (1776-1832), I...

Literary texts, works of art, and consumer goods have played a major role in the spread of globalization. In this course we shall focus on a key moment in its long history: the 200-year period that began with the consumer and financial revolutions of the eighteenth century and culminated in...