Industry, Population, and Revolution
university closed because of snowBackground Reading
Merriman, History of Modern Europe, vol. 2 on on the First Industrial Revolution and early socialists (pp. 553-597).Discussion: 28-29 Jan. 2009, Reading the People
postponed until next week
Students whose last names begin with A-H must submit written answers to Reading Questions this week.
Charles Dickens, “The Pawnbroker’s Shop” (1836), available on-line.
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), chapter six; the full text is also available.
Mrs. Motherly (Emily Augusta Patmore), The Servant’s Behaviour Book: or Hints on Manners and Dress (1859), selections; the full text is also available.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech on Parliamentary Reform (March 1831), selections.
Further Reading
Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction (1985).
Robert Goldstein, Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1989).
Catherine Hall and Leonore Davidoff, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 (1987).
Katherine Lynch, Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France (1988).
Jeremy D. Popkin, Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835 (2002).
William Reddy, The Rise of Market Culture: the Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900 (1984).
William Sewell, Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from 1789 to 1848 (1980).
E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963).
Mary Lee Townsend, Popular Humor and the Limits of Repression in Nineteenth-century Prussia (1992).
Judith Wechsler, A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in Nineteenth-Century Paris (1992).
