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)
