CLHUMHI114 - The History of Victorian England
For much of the past century we have pictured Victorians as people who lived sober, prudent lives in overstuffed houses filled with overstuffed furniture. Literature and history commonly depict Victorians as people who revered religion, family, country and social convention. However, modern scholarship has brought this stereotypical portrait into question. Historian Newell Boyd surveys Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, emphasizing research that challenges traditional views of Victorian times, highlighting a society that was more irreverent, creative and less inhibited than previously believed.
Course Details
Newell Boyd, Ph.D., is a semi-retired professor of history whose primary teaching field is Victorian Britain and the British empire. He is also an instructor in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Rice University and has been published in a variety of books and scholarly journals in the field of British history. He has published two historical novels on the lives of Joseph Chamberlain and John Ruskin. Dr. Boyd holds a doctorate in history from Texas Tech University and has done postdoctoral research at the University of London, University of Birmingham, the London School of Economics, University of Oxford, The University of Manchester and The University of Edinburgh. He has been a fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and is a member of England’s Society of Authors and the Royal Historical Society.
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