History 4485. Modern Britain: The Victorian Age
Schedule of Class Meetings
January 16
Great Britain: The Three Kingdoms
January 18
The British Constitution and the British Churches
Text ch. 1
January 23
Text ch. 2
January 25
Text ch. 5
January 30
Text ch. 3, 6
February 1
February 6
Hard Times and The Great Famine in Ireland
Text ch. 7, 8, 10, 11
February 8
Text ch. 4, 9
February 13
February 15
Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection
February 20 Paper due on Jane Eyre
February 22
Text ch. 11
February 27
John Stuart Mill and the Theory of Democracy
March 1
William Gladstone and Liberalism
March 6
Benjamin Disraeli and the Tory Resurgence
Text ch. 15
March 8 Mid-Term Exam
March 13 Spring Break
March 15 Spring Break
March 20
March 22
Jude the Obscure I
March 27
March 29
Radicalism and Irish Home Rule
Text ch. 19
April 3
Jude the Obscure II
April 5
Home Rule and The Scramble for Africa
April 10 Paper due on Jude the Obscure
Text ch. 12, 14, 18
April 12
Text ch. 13
April 17
The Boer War and High Imperialism
Text ch. 16, 17
April 19
A Passage to India I
April 24
Text ch. 21, 22
April 26
A Passage to India II
May 1
Text ch.23
May 3 Paper on A Passage to India due (turn in graded copies of papers I and II)
The Strange Death of Liberal England
Text ch. 24