This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn't be more out of date or at odds with the feverish world described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline's three-year indictment of "fast fashion".

As in so many shrines in the Ottoman world, women of both faiths leave scribbled supplications for a successful conception.

Every poem and novel in the course deals with the 19th-century conception of mortality and the world beyond.