Apes, Angels, Victorians: The Modern split Between the Sciences and the Humanities, Between the Secular and the Religious.
         
Focusing on six Victorian thinkers: Carlyle, Marx, Ruskin, Darwin, Newman, and Morris, we’ll explore the influence of John Locke, Daniel Defoe, and Jean Jacques Rousseau on the nineteenth century by discussing the Age of Reason, Empiricism, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism.  
         
Eng 429/Lib 500
Jack Wilson, English
Online, Fall 2005

     
  Click on Queen Victoria for the syllabus.