HNRS: Bright Lights Big City
Fall 2019 Courses
Course:
SCHC 450 H02 26472
Course Attributes:
EngLit, Humanities, HistoryCiv, AIU
Instructor:
David Shields
Location/Times(1):
HONORS B119 on TR @ 11:40 am - 12:55 pm
Registered:
13
Seat Capacity:
15
Notes:
The city was both the promise and the problem of the American republic. The burgeoning cities of the United States in the 19th century served simultaneously as the material evidence of the productivity and ambition of capitalism and the site of moral depravity and crime in the eyes of cultural critics whether religious, agrarian, or left utopian. This course will examine a series of literary and visual evocations of the city, exploring the politics, sociology, ethnography, and voice of the country’s great urban centers