Midterm Exam

Paper Topics

For Jan. 7
Tudor & Staurt Dynasties (1487-1642): Rise of English Power, Absolutism
Sheppard, pp. 1-6 & 93-147 (required); pp. 7-91 (optional)
Watkin, pp. 82-104 (required); pp. 8-81 (optional)
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Elizabeth I, selected poems & speeches (photocopy)
"The British Baronage" & "Money, Weights, & Measures" (photocopies)
Films:Elizabeth, Sea Hawks, Shakespeare in Love

For Jan. 14
Civil War, Restoration, & Revolutions (1642-1714)
Sheppard, pp. 148-170
Etherege,The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter & the Collier Controversy: Collier, Steele, & Dennis (photocopies)
Pepys,excerpts from his Diary, (photocopy)
Film:The English Civil Wars

For Jan. 21
Plague, Great Fire, & Urban Architecture in London (c. 1500-c. 1837)
Sheppard, pp. 171-201
Watkin, pp. 104-153
Summerson, excerpts from The Classical Language of Architecture (photocopy)
Dafoe, excerpts from Journal of the Plague Year (photocopy)
Pepys, excerpts from his Diary (photocopy)
Various, "Landscape, Pleasure, & Power" (photocopy)

For Jan. 28
Georgian London (1714-1837): Agricultural & Commercial Revolutions; Urbanization, Class Structure & Crime; the Wealth of Empire
Sheppard, pp. 205-262
Goldsmith, "An Essay on the Theatre" (photocopy)
Sheridan, School for Scandal
Hogarth, "A Rake's progress" (photocopy)
Johnson, "Vanity of Human Desires" (photocopy)
Film:Madness of King George, Plunkett & Macleane

For Feb. 4
British Painting & Sculpture (c. 1500-c.1837): Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Royal Academies, & the Grand Tour
Wilton, (**pages TBA)
Blake, Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience
Boswell, excerpts from On the Grand Tour (photocopy)
Reynolds, Discourses III & IV (photocopy)
Dickens, Hard Times (start reading)

For Feb. 11
The Industrial Revolution: Technology, Urbanization, & Class Consciousness
Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution: Parliamentary Papers, Macaulay, Kingsley, Mayhew (photocopies)
Carlyle, excerpts from Past and Present (photocopy)
Engels, excerpts from Conditions of the Working Class in England (photocopy)
Dickens, Hard Times (finish reading)
Films:Sense & Sensibility, An Ideal Husband

For Feb. 18
Victorian London (1837-1914): Commercialism, Urban Life & Crime
Sheppard, pp. 263-320
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Doyle, Adventure of the Dancing Men & Other Sherlock Holmes Stories (start reading)
Films:Topsy-Turvey, From Hell, The Elephant Man

For Feb. 25
Victorian Art & Architecture: Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism
Wilton, (**pages TBA)
Watkin, pp. 154-180
Dante & Christina Rossetti, selected poems (photocopies)
Ruskin, excerpts from Modern Painters & Stones of Venice (photcopies)
Pater, excerpts from The Renaissance (photocopy)
Films:Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Howard's End

Feb. 27
Take-Home Midterms Due

For Break:
Sheppard, pp. 321-338
Watkin, pp. 180-206 (optional)
Doyle, Adventure of the Dancing Men & Other Sherlock Holmes Stories (finish)
Excerpts from the World War I Trench Poets (photocopy)
Films:Hope & Glory, Sherlock Holmes, Passport to Pimlico

Friday March 1, 8:30 a.m.
Depart Florida Tech for Orlando International Airport via bus

March 18
Using Historical Sources

March 25
Using Historical Sources

April 1
Journals & Paper Topics Due in class

April 8
Discussion Group

April 22
Papers Due

Course Requirements

• To comply with State and Florida Tech rules, your assingments must total at least 6,000 words.
• Attendance is required, especially on-site in London.
• The take-home midterm and paper must be word-processed; absolutely no late work is accepted.
• Any form of academic dishonesty will result in an "F" grade for this course. Please read Florida Tech rules on Plagiarism.
• Disruptive or disrespectful behavior won't be tolerated and can result in immediate dismissal.

Required Textbooks:
Sheppard, London: A History (Oxford, ISBN 0192853694)
Watkin, English Architecture (Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0500203385)
Wilton, Five Centuries of British painting (Thames & Hudson, ISBN0500203490)
Potterton, The National Gallery, London (Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0500201617)
Blake, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (Dover, ISBN 0486270513)
Dickens, Hard Times (Dover, ISBN 0486419207)
Doyle, Adventure of the Dancing Men & OtherSherlock Holmes Stories (Dover, ISBN 0486295583)
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Dover, ISBN 0486282724)
Sheridan, School for Sandal (Dover, ISBN 0486266877)
Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest (Dover, ISBN 0486264785)

Suggested: Blue Guide London

Course Objectives:

• To bring students into close contact with the most significant historical sites and the primary source material of London from c. 1487-c. 1945.
• To provide students a basic foundation in four major periods of British "Imperial" history, literature, art, and architecture: Tudor-Stuart, Revolution-Restoration, Georgian, and Victorian.
• To help students attain basic competence in the most significant historical, social, and artistic issues of these four periods.
• To attain competency in methods of primary source analysis in history, literature, and art history.

Note About Your Journal (150 points):
Purchase a bound, ruled lab book. In this book, you will be writing:

• Answers to the study questions and thoughts about the assigned readings and films. The study questions will be posted on the course web site. Of the 16 films on the syllabus, you must watch at least 12. Films will be on reserve at the Evans Library, or can be rented locally.
• Group Site visit assignments.
• Individual site visit assignments. While in London you are required to visit at least one of the sites from the list below. Ideally, the site chosen will have some relevance for your final paper.
• General thoughts and reactions before, during, and after the London trip as well as suggestions for improving the course.
• Paper Topic and any research done while in London.

Individual Site Visits:
In London:Cabinet War Rooms (WWII); Courtauld Galleries, Somerset House (art & architecture); Dulwich Picture Gallery (art); Hayward Gallery (post-modern art); Kensington Palace (art, architecture); Kenwood House in Hampstead Heath (art, architecture); Kew Gardens (landscape architecture); Museum of London (history); London Transport Museum (technology); National Army Museum (history); National Maritime Museum (Greenwich); National Portrait Gallery (art); Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich (science/technology); Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace (art); Queen's Palace, Greenwich (architecture); Rose Theater (Shakespeare); Royal Academy of Art, Sherlock Holmes Museum; Tate Modern; Victoria & Albert Museum (medieval & Renaissance art).
Near London: RAF Museum, Hendon (WWII); Windsor Palace (art & architecture)

Other sites can be chosen with approval from both instructors.

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