Chapter 4

Study Blake's poem about the Tyger to make sense of the Romantic turn against discursive modernity.

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Compare pictures of “modern” cities in the Dossier of images of the late 18th to early 20th centuries. Discuss the patterns of destruction and construction you see in each site. Compare the principles of progress at work in the different cities.