Week I: Introduction
Sep 4: Introduction to the course and participants
Sep 6: Lecture: "Victoria and her realm"

Reading:
A.N. Wilson, "The Little Old Woman Britannia" in The Victorians [on reserve]
Strachey, "Introduction" and "Preface" in Eminent Victorians, vii-xii, 9-11

Visual:
Queen Victoria: Images of her World

Week II: Politics, Reform, and Public Order
Sep 11: Discussion
Sep 13: Discussion

Reading:
A.N. Wilson, "The Age of Peel" and "The Failed Revolution" in The Victorians [on reserve]
Victor Bailey, "English Prisons, Penal Culture, and the Abatement of Imprisonment, 1895-1922" in Journal of British Studies, 36:3 (1997) [JSTOR]
David Campion, " 'Policing the Peelers': Parliament, the Public, and the Metropolitan Police" in M. Cragoe and A. Taylor (eds.) London Politics, 1760-1914 [on reserve]
D.J. Rowe, "The Failure of London Chartism" in The Historical Journal, 11:3 (1968) [JSTOR]

Documents:
T.B. Macauley, "Speech on the Reform Bill of 1832"
"The People's Charter" (1842)
Friedrich Engels, "Industrial Manchester" in The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)

Week III: Faith, Reason, and Action
Sep 18: Discussion: Faught
Sep 20: Discussion: Faught, Strachey

Reading:
Strachey, "Cardinal Manning" in Eminent Victorians
Faught, The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History

Documents:
John Henry Newman, "Tract 2: The Catholic Church" (1833) and "Tract 90: Remarks on certain passages of the Thirty-Nine Articles" (1841)
Newman, et. al, "The Tracts for the Times" (1833-41)

Week IV: Women in Victorian Society
Sep 25: Discussion: Strachey
Sep 27: Discussion: Koven

Reading:
Strachey, "Florence Nightingale" in Eminent Victorians
Koven, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London, 1-139

Documents:
"Women miners in the English coal pits" (from Parliamentary Papers, 1842)
J.S. Mill, "The subjection of women" (1869)
Emmeline Pankhurst, "My own story" (1914)

Week V: Inside the Victorian Underworld
Oct 2: Discussion: Koven
Oct 4: Discussion: Stevenson

Reading:
Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Koven, Slumming, 140-288

Documents:
The Ripper Files (from the records of the Metropolitan Police)
"Jack the Ripper", Letters and Postcards (1888-90)

Week VI: Victoria's Empire
Oct 9: Discussion
Oct 11: FALL BREAK (NO CLASS)

Reading:
Strachey, "The End of General Gordon" in Eminent Victorians
John Gallagher and Robert Robinson, "The Imperialism of Free Trade" in Economic History Review VI (1953) [on reserve]

Documents:
Benjamin Disraeli, "The Maintenance of Empire" (1872)
Joseph Chamberlain, "The True Conception of Empire" (1897)
Rudyard Kipling, "Gunga Din" (1891) and "The White Man's Burden" (1898)

Week VII: Victoria's Empire (continued) and Conclusion
Oct 16: Discussion: Cohn, documents
Oct 18: Discussion: Conclusion

Reading:
Bernard S. Cohn, "Representing Authority in Victorian India" in Hobsbawm and Ranger (eds), The Invention of Tradition [on reserve]
A.N. Wilson, "Vale" in The Victorians [on reserve]

Documents:
Queen Victoria, Proclamation to the Princes, Chiefs, and the People of India (1858)
Lord Roberts, "When Queen Victoria became Empress of India" (1877)

THESIS PROPOSAL AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE OCT 18

Week VIII: Individual Meetings
Oct 23: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic
Oct 25: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic

Week IX: Research
Oct 30: No class meeting, individual research
Nov 1: No class meeting, individual research

DETAILED THESIS OUTLINE DUE NOV 1

Week X: Primary Sources
Nov 6: Presentation of primary sources, Group I
Nov 8: Presentation of primary sources, Group II

Week XI: Primary Sources
Nov 13: Presentation of primary sources, Group III
Nov 15: Meeting to distribute thesis drafts for peer review

DRAFT OF THESIS DUE IN CLASS NOV 15

Week XII: Peer Review
Nov 20: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group I
Nov 22: THANKSGIVING (NO CLASS)

Week XIII: Peer Review
Nov 27: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group II
Nov 29: Peer review of thesis drafts, Group III

Week XIV: Writing
Dec 4: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)
Dec 6: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)

Week XV: Conclusion
Dec 11: Final discussion

THESIS DUE BY 5PM MONDAY DEC 17