PARIS — With the bloody revolutions of the late 1700s, the mood in Europe was apprehensive and brooding about the future. Perhaps then it’s no surprise that the art from that time has a certain ...

Alain de Botton is the author of The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange—and even rather insulting—to suggest that ...

Alain de Botton is the founder and Chairman of The School of Life. He is the best-selling author of The News: A User's Manual and, most recently, The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels ...

Jay Clayton, a professor of English literature at Vanderbilt University, describes the courses he has taught that focus simultaneously on 19th-century English literature and on “the strange, misshapen ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

This is the story of educational romanticism in elementary and secondary schools —its rise, its etiology, and, we have reason to hope, its approaching demise. Educational romanticism consists of the ...

Two lives, side by side, separated only by language, culture, and 200 years. In this double portrait, one lives at the beginning of a dream of what renewal — both personal and cultural — poetry might ...

For specific instructions about session formats, please scroll to the bottom of the page. Facilitated by the CU Boulder 18-19 Graduate Students. Moderated by Grace Rexroth. Panelists include Nikki ...

Actress Bronwyn James wore a custom gown by designer Lianne Almeida to the UK premiere of ‘Wicked: For Good’. Almeida, a Somerset native, was contacted by James's stylist after her work was featured ...