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Links Used in Class |
Violent Entertainment Paper |
| Date |
Topic |
Readings & Assignments |
| Thursday 23 Aug 18 |
How to study the history of crime and violence in the Victorian Era? | Criminal Conversations, Introduction |
| Tuesday 28 Aug 18 |
Class & Crime | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 1 |
| Thursday 30 Aug 18 |
Children & Crime | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 2 |
| Tuesday 4 Sept 18 |
Rural Crime | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 3 |
| Thursday 6 Sept 18 |
No class...enjoy! |
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| Tuesday 11 Sept 18 |
Responses to violence in Victorian society | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 6 |
| Thursday 13 Sept 18 |
Ethnicity & Crime | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 7 |
| Tuesday
18 Sept 18 |
Sexuality & Violence | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 8 |
| Thursday 20 Sept 18 |
A Mania for Suspicion |
Criminal Conversations, Chapter 9 |
| Tuesday
25 Sept 18 |
Test #1 |
Study! |
| Thursday 27 Sept 18 |
Domestic Violence | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 11 |
| Tuesday 2 Oct 18 |
Infanticide | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 12 |
| Thursday 4 Oct 18 |
Sex, Wives, and Prostitutes |
Criminal Conversations, Chapter 13 |
| Tuesday 9 Oct 18 |
“Crimes of Moral Outrage” | Criminal Conversations, Chapter 14 |
| Thursday 12 Oct 18 |
No class…Fall Break! |
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| Tuesday
16 Oct 18 |
Silence of Victims |
Criminal Conversations, Chapter 15 |
| Thursday 19 Oct 18 |
Crime and celebrity | “Constructing the Cult of the Criminal: Kate Webster – Victorian Murderess and Media Sensation” (Handout) |
| Tuesday 23 Oct 18 |
Watch The Abominable Bride (2016) | |
| Wednesday 24 Oct 18 |
Talk by Dr. Ann McClellan, Plymouth State University @ 7:00 p.m. in Barnes Electronic Classroom, Hewes Library |
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| Thursday 25 Oct 18 |
Conversation with Ann McClellan... |
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| Tuesday 30 Oct 18 |
Jack the Ripper |
“Murder
in Black and White: Victorian Crime Scenes and the Ripper Photographs”
& “Optograms, Autobiography, and the Image of Jack the Ripper” (Handouts) |
| Thursday 1 Nov 18 |
Test #2 | Study! |
| Tuesday 6 Nov 18 |
Coping with change, expressing resistance |
Violent Victorians, Prologue & Chapter 1 |
| Thursday 8 Nov 18 |
About town with Mr. Punch |
Violent Victorians, Chapter 2 |
| Tuesday 13 Nov 18 |
From scaffold culture to the cult of the murderer |
Violent Victorians, Chapter 3 |
| Thursday 15 Nov 18 |
The ‘Blood-Stained Stage’ revisited |
Violent Victorians, Chapter 4 |
| Tuesday 20 Nov 18 |
Selling Sweeney Todd to the masses |
Violent Victorians, Chapter 5 |
| Thursday 22 Nov 18 |
No class…Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| Friday 23 Nov 18 |
Violent Entertainment Proposal & Preliminary Bibliography Due @ Midnight | |
| Tuesday 27 Nov 18 |
The rise of modern crime reporting |
Violent Victorians, Chapter 6 |
| Thursday 29 Nov 18 |
The civilizing moment? |
Violent Victorians, Epilogue |
| Tuesday 4 Dec 18 |
In-class proofreading session… |
Violent Entertainment Paper Due @ Midnight |
| Thursday 6 Dec 18 |
Reading Day |
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| Tuesday 11 Dec 18 |
Final Exam @ 11:30 a.m. |
Study!!! |