BOOKPACKING PaRIS AND LONDON
The Age of Revolutions explored through classic historical fiction
In this class, students spend a month in Paris and London ‘bookpacking’ two classic historical novels - ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens, and ‘Les Misérables’ by Victor Hugo. We seek out the locations of these epic stories, tracing their trajectories - to the guillotine, to the barricades - and we discover how much these tales of Revolution still resonate in our own fractured age.
This is a class about place, people and politics at the intersection of past and present. If you have a passion for literature, for history and for contemporary political thought, this class is for you.
This is a GE-B class. It is co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Department of History, and meets major requirements for English, Narrative Studies and History. It is open to all.
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Explore the locations from the novels using old maps.