This course focuses on the British literature and visual culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, allowing students to encounter historical remnants of London’s past through a series of pedestrian rambles recorded in both words and images. Primary source materials will include such works as Hogarth’s narrative visual series, Pepys’ Diary, Microcosm of London, Life in London, and Dickens’ Sketches by Boz. These works from our past will be reinforced by observations among the streets of modern-day London and its environs.
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