HSTY2689 - Civility & Squalor: 18 C. British Isles

Semester 1, 2012  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Cindy McCreery
Phone: +61 2 9351 4133
Email: cindy.mccreery@sydney.edu.au

Description

Eighteenth-century British and Irish society displayed stark contracts: conspicuous consumption jostled with abject poverty, humanitarian campaigns co-existed with capital punishment, and major treatises on political liberty were published alongside drinking manuals. This unit uses contemporary sources like newspapers, magazines, cartoons and pamphlets to trace major cultural, political, economic and social themes in Britain and Ireland, eg aristocratic leadership and decadence, political liberty and repression, religious faith and doubt, women's private and public lives, urbanization and unemployment, fashion and leisure.

Assessments

1x1000wd draft essay (20%) and 1x3000wd essay (60%) and 1x500wd tutorial presentation (10%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Classes

2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week

Prerequisites

12 junior credit points of junior History, Ancient History or Asian Studies

Prohibitions

HSTY3699

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