Victorian Lives: Five Nineteenth-Century Figures and Their World (Mini-Class)
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The period of British history from 1837 to 1901 was one in which both Britain and the world were altered remarkably. Changes abounded, in social customs, technology, political and military affairs, and the relations between person and person, citizen and government.
Join Thomas Banks on June 30th-July 8th in this six-lecture exploration of the lives of five Victorian men and women who, in diverse ways, illustrate, characterize, or contradict the times in which they lived and died.
A Politician: Benjamin Disraeli
A Novelist: George Eliot
A Reformer: Florence Nightingale
An Iconoclast: Karl Marx
A Soldier: Gordon of Khartoum
Schedule:
Monday, June 30th: Introductory lecture on the Victorian scene; outlook, manners, achievements and failures, in politics, the arts, and social mores.
Tuesday, July 1st: Lecture on Benjamin Disraeli, the socialite and novelist who became the first Jewish prime minister of Great Britain.
Wednesday, July 2nd: Lecture on George Eliot, her novels and other writings, and her place in the history of Victorian religion and agnosticism.
Thursday, July 3rd: Lecture on Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War, and her work as a medical and social reformer in this “Age of Improvement”.
*There will be no class on the days from July 4th-6th, because of Independence Day and the weekend.*
Monday, July 7th: Lecture on Karl Marx; the life of a revolutionary theorist, his work as a writer and apocalyptic prophet of world revolution and the unmaking of society as it is.
Tuesday, July 8th: Lecture on the life and death of General George Gordon; his service in China and Africa, and the colonial wars of Victorian Britain.
Description
The period of British history from 1837 to 1901 was one in which both Britain and the world were altered remarkably. Changes abounded, in social customs, technology, political and military affairs, and the relations between person and person, citizen and government.
Join Thomas Banks on June 30th-July 8th in this six-lecture exploration of the lives of five Victorian men and women who, in diverse ways, illustrate, characterize, or contradict the times in which they lived and died.
A Politician: Benjamin Disraeli
A Novelist: George Eliot
A Reformer: Florence Nightingale
An Iconoclast: Karl Marx
A Soldier: Gordon of Khartoum
Schedule:
Monday, June 30th: Introductory lecture on the Victorian scene; outlook, manners, achievements and failures, in politics, the arts, and social mores.
Tuesday, July 1st: Lecture on Benjamin Disraeli, the socialite and novelist who became the first Jewish prime minister of Great Britain.
Wednesday, July 2nd: Lecture on George Eliot, her novels and other writings, and her place in the history of Victorian religion and agnosticism.
Thursday, July 3rd: Lecture on Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War, and her work as a medical and social reformer in this “Age of Improvement”.
*There will be no class on the days from July 4th-6th, because of Independence Day and the weekend.*
Monday, July 7th: Lecture on Karl Marx; the life of a revolutionary theorist, his work as a writer and apocalyptic prophet of world revolution and the unmaking of society as it is.
Tuesday, July 8th: Lecture on the life and death of General George Gordon; his service in China and Africa, and the colonial wars of Victorian Britain.
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