After a thematic first session, considering the broader question of pantheons, tombs, and monuments, and the limited specific scholarship on the St. Paul’s pantheon itself, the course proceeds chronologically through the major commemorative projects of the long nineteenth century. These will include the Napoleonic Wars and memorials to East India Company men, the Sepoy Mutiny and Crimean War, the Wellington monument, and the memorials to the victims of the Boer and First World Wars.
Because there is remarkable little secondary literature upon almost all of the extant monuments, the course will be self-consciously object, rather than text focussed, and will proceed through a series of unusually close readings of the memorials themselves.By the end of the module, students should have acquired:
Possible seminar outline:
Preliminary reading:
Module information
- Module title
The Art of War: The St. Paul's Sculptural Pantheon- Module number
HOA00017M- Convenor
Jason Edwards
For postgraduates