The Victorian Age, 1830-1901 (Norton Introduction, 1017-1043)

Week 4, Industrialism: Progress or Decline?

  • Thomas Carlyle, ‘Democracy’ (1067-72)
  • Thomas Macauley, [Evidence of Progress] (1582-87)
  • Charles Dickens, From ‘Oliver Twist’ (Chapter 2)
  • Charles Kingsley, [A London Slum] (1597-99)

Week 5, From Slave Trade to Imperialist Expansion

  • Olaudah Equiano, From ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano’ (98-105)
  • Thomas Macauley, From ‘Minute on Indian Education’ (1640-42)
  • Joseph Chamberlain, From ‘The True Conception of Empire’ (1662-65)
  • J. A. Hobson, From ‘Imperialism: A Study' (1665-67)
  • Joseph Conrad, From ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1953-1956, 1963-64)

Week 6, Late Victorians, Decadence, Aestheticism (1668-71)

  • Oscar Wilde, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ (1733-77)

 

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2. The Victorian Age, 1830-1901 (Norton Introduction, 1017-1043)