The Literature and Culture of Fame
Instructor: David Blake
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this new course focuses on the changing meaning of fame from Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment. Intended for both English majors and Liberal Learning students, the course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the moral and philosophic questions that fame raises about character, honor, morality, citizenship, value, and mortality. Readings may include works by Homer, Virgil, St. Augustine, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Dickinson, and Keats.