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Skip to contentDepartment of EnglishMenu Close Search Undergraduate ProgramMFA in Creative WritingPhD in English & American LiteratureResearchStudent ResourcesOur PeopleLet your curiosity lead the way:Apply TodayHomeCoursesUpcoming EventsRecent NewsThe SpectacleContact Us Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&S Topics in English Literature ENGLISH LITERATURE 4621 We all love our things -- our Supreme streetwear, Nike sneakers, Iphones -- but we rarely take time to analyze what our attachment to these things means. In this class, we will visit the origins of modern consumer culture to find some answers. We will investigate narratives that claim to be written by things, poems in which persons become things, and narrators who obsess about things. We will read these literary texts alongside works that will help us think about the nature of our attachments, about the gift, the fetish, and what it means to be a person. Our working assumption will be that the early days of commodity culture are especially revealing for insights into our relationships to things. Satisfies the Eighteenth Century requirement. Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM; FA HUM; EL NC; AR HUM; UC ENL; EL EC; EL TC; EL GML Section 01Topics in English Literature INSTRUCTOR: SchmidgenM-W---- 02:30 PM | TBA View Course Listing - SP2023 View Course Listing - FL2023 View Course Listing - SP2024 View Course Listing - FL2024 Quick LinksNewsEventsOur PeopleFaculty BookshelfDepartment AwardsResourcesContactAdditional information Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&SCopyright 2024 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisFollow Us Facebook Twitter Contact Us: Department of English [email protected] Visit the main Washington University in St. Louis website1 Brookings Drive / St. Louis, MO 63130 / wustl.edu