ENGLISH *756 / The Secret Life of Things in the Eighteenth Century

3 unit(s)

E. Zuroski Jenkins (cross-listed as CULTR ST *756)

Considers emergent literary discourses about inanimate objects and non-human animals and their role in social life in eighteenth-century Great Britain, attending to the way writers identify and animate “things” in relation to persons and subjects, and vice versa. It will also introduce students to methodologies in the study of material culture in the context of literary and cultural studies.