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Week 1: Introduction to the Victorian Period.
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Week 2: Industrialisation and the Condition of England. Thomas Babington Macaulay, ‘A Review of Southey’s Colloquies’ (1830); excerpt from ‘The Children’s Employment Commission: First Report’ (1842-43); Fredrich Engels, excerpt from The Great Towns (1845); Thomas Carlyle, excerpt from Past and Present (1843); Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘The Cry of the Children’ (1843); and excepts from Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855).
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Week 3: The Angel in the House: Coventry Patmore, excerpts from The Angel in the House (1854); John Ruskin, excerpts from Of Queen’s Gardens (1864); Sarah Stickney Ellis, excerpts from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839); and Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’ (1852).
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Week 4: Saints and Sinners: John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869); Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market (1862); and Robert Browning, ‘My Last Duchess’ (1842), ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ (1842), ‘The Laboratory’ (1844).
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Week 5: 'The Great Social Evil': Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s; Excerpts from Henry Mayhew’s ‘Prostitution in London’ (1862), Prime Minister William Gladstone and the Prostitutes of London, Anonymous, “The Great Social Evil”, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, ‘Jenny’, Oscar Wilde, ‘The Harlot’s House’.
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Week 6: Midterm Week
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Week 7: Medievalism: Clare Broome Saunders, ‘Guinevere: The Medieval Queen in the Nineteenth Century’, Women Writers and Nineteenth Century Medievalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 103-132; William Morris, ‘The Defence of Guenevere’ (1858); Violet Fane, ‘Lancelot and Guinevere’ (1872).
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Week 8: The Pre-Raphaelites: William Michael Rossetti, ‘The Pre- Raphaelite Manifesto’ (1895); Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘Nuptial Sleep’ (1881), ‘Soul’s Beauty’ (1881), ‘Body’s Beauty’ (1881); and Christina Rossetti, ‘In an Artist’s Studio’ (1896).
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Week 9: Science and Sociology: Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species (1859); Gregory Claeys, ‘The “Survival of the Fittest” and the Origins of Social Darwinism’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 61.2 (2000), 223-240; and H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895).
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Week 10: Science and Sociology: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) continued.
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Week 11: Research Project Workshop
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Week 12: Aestheticism and Decadence: Walter Pater, excerpts from Studies in the History of the Renaissance; Oscar Wilde, ‘The Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray’, ‘Harlot’s House’, Charles Algernon Swinburne, ‘Hymn to Proserpine’.
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Week 13: The Empire: Excepts from Stuart Laycock’s All The Countries We've Ever Invaded: And The Few We Never Got Round To (2012), Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen, 1886”, Selected works from the Ladies’ Realm magazine, 1896-1901
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Week 14: The Empire: Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899), Ernest Crosby, “The Real White Man’s Burden”, H. T. Johnson, “The Black Man’s Burden”