Summer Seminar: Verbal and Visual Texts: Eighteenth-Century England
FAIN: FS-*1350-78
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
Ronald H. Paulson (Project Director: May 1978 to October 1990)
The seminar will develop an interdisciplinary approach for the analysis of major literary and graphic works of eighteenth- century England. Topics will include: emblems, mythology, history, and history painting; portraiture (heraldry, conversation pieces, "characters," biographies); comic history and genre; topography and cityscape; landscape gardening; emblematic landscape, and Romantic landscape.