Week One:
Imperial Overview |
Lecture |
The First and Second British Empires
(A Nineteenth-Century Timeline) |
| Texts |
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" |
| "MacDermott's War Song" (Text and Sound File) |
| Reginald Heber,"From Greenland's Icy Mountains" (Text and Sound File) |
| William Greg, "Shall We Retain Our Colonies?" |
Week Two:
The Drama of Empire |
Lectures |
Australia: From Gaol to Gold |
| In the Footsteps of Crusoe: The Victorian Theatrical Robinsonade |
| Texts |
Charles Reade, It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1865) |
J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton (1902)
(J.M. Barrie Site with pictures, video, and audio records of Barrie) |
Week Three:
War and Domesticity |
Lecture |
Crisis in the Crimea
(The Crimean War Research Society)
(Mary Seacole) |
| Texts |
Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole (1857) |
| Harriet Martineau, "On the Death of Florence Nightingale" (1910) |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854) |
| Report |
Ann Laura Stoler, "Cultivating Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves" |
Week Four:
Globe-Trotting |
Lecture |
Uniting the Empire: Canals, Wires, and Rails |
| Text |
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) |
| Report |
Mary Louise Pratt, "Narrating the Anti-Conquest" |
Week Five:
From Cairo to the Cape |
Lecture |
The Scramble for Africa
(The Scramble for Africa) |
| Texts |
Selections from Richard Burton, Wanderings in West Africa (1861)
(Sir Richard F. Burton on the Web) |
Selections from Mary Kinglsey, Travels in West Africa (1897)
(Mary Kingsley at the Royal African Society) |
| Report |
Annie Coombs, "The Spectacle of Empire" |
Week Six:
Travelers' Tales |
Student
Reports |
Anthony Trollope, The West Indies and the Spanish Main (1858)
(Bibliography and commentaries on Trollope's work) |
| William Makepeace Thackeray, From Cornhill to Cairo (1845) |
| Richard Burton, Goa, and the Blue Mountains (1858) |
| David Livingstone, et al., The Lfe and African Explorations of David Livingstone (1874) |
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
(The Complete Works of Charles Darwin) |
Anna Leonowens, An English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870)
(Anna Leonowens--Fact or Fiction?)
(Anna Leonowens at Women's History) |
| Emily Eden, Up the Country (1866) |
Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas (1896)
(The Robert L. Stevenson Website) |
Francis Galton, The Art of Travel (1855)
(Francis Galton.org) |
| Frederick Marryat, The Mission; or, Scenes in Africa (1845) |
Week Seven:
Imperial Adventure Fiction |
Text |
H. Rider Haggard, She (1887)
(Film Adaptations of Haggard's Novels at IMDB) |
| Report |
Graham Dawson, "The Adventure Quest and Its Cultural Imaginaries" |
Week Eight:
The Great Game |
Lecture |
The Jewel in the Crown
(The Rudyard Kipling Society) |
| Text |
Rudyard Kipling, Kim (1901)
(Information on 1950 Film Adaptation of Kim) |
| Report |
Thomas Richards, "Archive and Utopia" |
Week Nine:
Briton and/as Other |
Texts |
Rudyard Kipling, Kim (Continued) |
George Bernard Shaw, Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1899)
(Shaw Society) |
| Charles Dickens, "The Noble Savage" |
| Report |
Parama Roy, "Oriental Exhibits" |
Week Ten:
The Indian "Mutiny" |
Lecture |
India in 1857-8
(The British Press and the Indian Mutiny)
(Description of Events of 1857)
(Parallel Presentation of Indian and British views of the "Mutiny") |
| Texts |
Dion Boucicault, Jessie Brown (1857)
("Leaves from a Dramatist's Diary," 1889)
("Jessie's Dream a Lucknow": a Broadside Ballad)
("Bagpipes in War") |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Minute on Indian Education" (1835) |
| Karl Marx, "The Indian Revolt" (1857) |
| Christina Rossetti, "The Round Tower at Jhansi" |
| Alfred Comyn Lyall, "Rajpoot Rebels" |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Defense of Lucknow" |
| Reports |
Nancy Paxton, "Mobilizing Chivalry" |
| Claudia Klaver, "Domesticity under Siege" |
Week Eleven:
Crimes of Empire |
Lecture |
Nabobs and Bungalows: Anglo-Indian Life
(Hobson-Jobson, the Anglo-Indian Dictionary) |
| Texts |
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four (1890) |
| Tom Taylor, Up at the Hills (1860) |
| Flora Annie Steel, from The Complete Indian Housekeeper (1888) |
| Report |
Yumna Siddiqi, "The Cesspool of Empire" |
Week Twelve:
At the Heart of the Empire |
Lecture |
Metropolitan Spectacles of Empire
("Imperial Views, Colonial Subjects: Victorian Periodicals and the Empire") |
| Texts |
Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) |
| T.N. Mukherjee, from Observations on the Indian and Colonial Exhibition (1889) |
| Joseph Salter, from The East in the West (1895) |
| Reports |
Antoinette Burton, "Making a Spectacle of Empire" |
| Ruth Lindeborg, "The 'Asiatic' and the Boundaries of Englishness" |
Week Thirteen:
The Empire Strikes Back |
Lecture |
From She to Dracula: Late-VictorianAnxieties of Reverse-Colonization |
| Text |
Bram Stoker, Dracula (Continued) |
| Report |
Stephen Arata, "The Occidental Tourist: Stoker and Reverse-Colonization" |
Week Fourteen:
Poetry of Empire |
Lecture |
From the Pulpit to the Music-Hall: The Empire in Poetry and Song
(Poetry of the Crimean and Boer Wars) |
| Texts |
Thomas Hood, "I'm Going to Bombay" |
| Richard Cheviniux Trench, "Lines Written on the First Tidings of the Cabul Masacres" |
| John Shehan, "The Campaign of the Sutlej" |
| Eliza Cook, "The Englishman" |
| Punch, "The Jingo-Englishman" |
| Thomas Hardy, "War Poems" |
| Charles Kingsley, "The Mango Tree" |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Epilogue to the Queen" |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen" |
| William Rossetti, "Emigration" |
| Douglas Sladen, "Mrs. Watson. A Queensland Hero" |
| Alfred Austin, "Henry Barlte Edward Frere. Born 1815. Died 1884" |
| Oscar Wilde, "Ave Imperatrix" |
| Rudyard Kipling, "The Widow at Windsor" |
| Rudyard Kipling, "A Song of the English" |
| Rudyard Kipling, "Recessional" |
| Lewis Morris, "The Imperial Institute. An Ode" |
| Reports |
Penny Summerfield, "Patriotism and Empire" |
| Steve Attridge, "Popular Poetry and the Boer War" |
Week Fifteen:
Presentations of Final Projects |
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Week Sixteen:
Final Projects Due |
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