2010: Laura White (English) and Wendy Katz (Art History)
The course is designed to provide a team-taught interdisciplinary introduction to the 19th century in North America (with a focus on the United States), Great Britain, and Europe, and treats themes such as gender relations, the emerging nation-state, industrialization and labor, class, war, race, science and religion, and imperialism/colonialism.
REQUIRED READINGS
- Newsome, The Victorian World Picture (read by the first day of class)
- Barney, The Passage of the Republic (read by the first day of class)
- Balzac, Eugenie Grandet
- Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage
- Whitman, Memoranda During the War
- Marx, The Communist Manifesto
- Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
- Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- Essays/stories/speeches/poetry by Lincoln, Sejour, Arnold, Huxley, Fanny Fern, G. Eliot, Rimbaud, Hopkins, Coleridge, Mill
- Artworks by Delacroix, Ford Madox Brown, Ravel, Thomas Cole, Goya, Thomas Noble
- Handouts and/or online readings
Upcoming Core Course
- Spring 2010: Priscilla Hayden-Roy (German) “Romantic Love in the Nineteenth Century”
Archived
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Studies
English/History/Modern Languages 918
- 2010: Andrew Graybill (History) “Violence”
- 2008: Laura White (English) “Manners and Class”
- 2006: Ken Winkle (History) “Victorian Families”
- 2005: Tim Mahoney (History) “The Bourgeois Century”