History 3415. Modern Britain: The Victorian Age

 

Schedule of Class Meetings

 

January 15

Great Britain: The Three Kingdoms

 

January 17

 The British Constitution and the British Churches

Text ch. 1

 

January 22

 

Land and the People

Text ch. 2

 

January 24

 

Romanticism and Radicalism

Text ch. 5

 

January 29

 

Reform

Text ch. 3, 6

 

January 31

 

Jane Eyre I

 

February 5

 

Hard Times and The Great Famine in Ireland

Text ch. 7, 8, 10, 11

 

February 7

 

Imperial Wars

Text ch. 4, 9

 

February 12

 

Jane Eyre II

 

February 14

 

Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection

 

February 19

The Bible and the Victorians

Paper due on Jane Eyre  

 

February 21

 

The Reform Bill of 1867

Text ch. 11

 

February 26

 

John Stuart Mill and the Theory of Democracy

 

February 28

 

William Gladstone and Liberalism

 

March 5

 

Benjamin Disraeli and the Tory Resurgence

Text ch. 15

 

March 7 Mid-Term Exam

 

 March 12

 

Sex and the Victorian Family

 

March 14

 

Jude the Obscure I

Spring Break

 

March 26

 

The Great Depression

 

March 28

 

Radicalism and Irish Home Rule

Text ch. 19

 

April 2

 

Jude the Obscure II

 

April 4

 

Home Rule and The Scramble for Africa

 

 

 April 9

Suburbs and the Grand Old Man

Text ch. 12, 14, 18

Paper due on Jude the Obscure

 

April 11

 

Socialism

Text ch. 13

 

April 16

 

The Boer War and High Imperialism

Text ch. 16, 17

April 18

 

A Passage to India I

 

April 23

 

The Liberal Revival

Text ch. 21, 22

 

April 25

 A Passage to India II

 April 30

Peers vs. the People

Text ch.23-24

Paper on A Passage to India due (turn in graded copies of papers I and II)  

May 2

The Strange Death of Liberal England

Review for Final Exam

May 10

Final Exam, 3-5 pm, 51 SH