British Studies At Oxford

2008

Provisional Syllabi

These syllabi are provisional and no doubt there will be changes to some before we arrive in Oxford. But those changes should be minor and infrequent.

 

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Recommended reading and books

 

 

8:30 Classes

A

Visual Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain

 

B

The Making of the British Raj

 

C

From Classical to Romantic: British Reactions to European Culture, 1750-1830

 

D

Towns and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century Britain

 

E

Britain in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1837

 

F

From Newton to Faraday: Science and Culture, 1687-1835

 

G

British Romanticism

 

H

Carpe Noctem: From Light to Darkness in Eighteenth-Century Literature

 

I

Mind the Gap! Satire in Eighteenth-Century Britain

 

J

Faith, Reason, and Politics in English and Scottish Thought

 

 

 

 

 

11:15 Seminars 

L

British Visual Art in the Romantic Period

 

M

Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

 

N

The Lion’s Share: Britain and the Slave Trade

 

O

The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century

 

P

From Newton to Faraday: Science and Culture, 1687-1835

 

Q

Frankenstein Meets Snow White: Cross-currents in British and German Romanticism

 

R

“The Dead Poets' Society”: Mourning and Memory in Neoclassical and Romantic Verse

 

S

Artful Wilderness: Literature and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century

 

T

William Blake

 

U

Liberation of Mind and Body in the Thought of John Locke

 

V

British Responses to the American and French Revolutions

 

W

Making a Joyful Noise? The Evolution of the English Choral Tradition, c.1549-1900

 

  Additional Class

 

Shakespeare: Page & Stage