Monday, 3/20/14: All Hail the Queen!

* Open

* Check Victorian Notes

• Review

* ICE, ICE, Lady

HW: 

• Take More Victorian Notes
• Our gracious, accomplished guide will be Dr. George P. Landow, of Brown University.  His compiled notes, links, and work may be found on The Victorian Web.

The main currents of Victorianism — some attempts at definition.  Read these short pieces.  Take notes on the three in bold and italics (note five things from each linked passage).

• Victorians and Victorianism — an Introduction
• The Complex Realities of Victorianism
• Main Currents in Victorian Intellectual History — Some Handy Oversimplifications
• How to go about understanding the Victorian age (Chesterton, 1913)
• Three main trends of Victorian thought: Utilitarianism, the Oxford Movement, and Romantic Protestantism (Chesterton, 1913)