Major - Victoria's Britain: Gender, Class and Culture in the Age of Empire

HIST 4255  Victoria's Britain: Gender, Class and Culture in the Age of Empire

Prerequisites:

Restricted to students in an Honours program with 84 credits completed.

Hours:

Three hours of seminar per week.

Credits:

6

Description:

This seminar course invites students to move past the myths of nineteenth-century Britain and see the Victorians as they worked, thought and played. Thematic readings and discussions address a number of topics including the social order and class consciousness; the construction of gender roles and separate spheres; the Victorian church and social impact of evangelicalism; literacy and the education of the working class; popular responses to imperialism; and the developing importance of sport, leisure and the mass market for consumer goods.