Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Seminar
Module Offerings
6110HIST-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To introduce students to the history of the Victorian city.
2. To enable students to think critically about and historicise urban identities.
3. To design a creative independent project
Learning Outcomes
1.
To assess and appraise scholarship on the Victorian City
2.
To interpret and identify primary sources
3.
To design and formulate a creative independent project based on their knowledge and critical understanding of the nineteenth-century city.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:This module will explore how the Victorians experienced and imagined their cities. The nineteenth century witnessed the rapid transformation of urban centres into densely populated areas. Victorians were both fascinated and repelled by this process. London was not only ‘magnificent’ in the eyes of American writer Henry James, but also a ‘brutal’ city which had ‘gathered together so many of the darkest sides of life’. This module will introduce you to some of the most vibrant debates in British history, urban history and history of social identities (class, gender and race). We will explore the Victorian city through a range of sources, including architecture, maps, photographs, novels, letters, diaries, journalism and investigative reports. To aid us on our journey, we will look at various writers and commentators who were particularly concerned with the Victorian city, including Walter Besant, Charles Dickens, Friedrich Engels, Henry Mayhew, Charles Booth and many others.
1. Module Introduction and What is Urban History
2. Understanding the Victorian City
3. City People
4. City Atmospheres
5. Slums
6. Suburbs and Suburban Adventures
7. Working-class Housing
8. Sex and the City
9. The Godly City
10. Leisure and Pleasure
11. Assessment Workshop
Module Overview:
The aim of this module is to introduce the history of Victorian cities. You will investigate the themes of class and gender in the Victorian city which will enable you to think critically about and historicise urban identities.
The aim of this module is to introduce the history of Victorian cities. You will investigate the themes of class and gender in the Victorian city which will enable you to think critically about and historicise urban identities.
Additional Information:This module will introduce you to some of the most vibrant debates in British history and urban history. We will explore the Victorian city through a range of sources, including architecture, maps, photographs, novels, letters, diaries, journalism and investigative reports.