Gender in Victorian Britain – Review session notes for Oct. 28, 2014

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History 364-0-01: Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Britain; Northwestern University, Fall 2014

  • Midterm Guidelines
    • The exam will consist of five elements. Allow equal time (approximately 15 minutes) for each. Each element carries equal marks.
    • Part 1
      • Spend approximately 30 minutes on Part 1
      • Part I will require students to identify and contextualize two excerpts from primary sources (from a source of three)
      • Give the full name of the author (where appropriate), the full title of the book, series of articles, or articles, and year of original publication
      • Discuss the significance of the excerpt; the important argument, issues, or salient points raised in the book or article(s) in question; and take a final few sentences to place the book or article(s) in their wider historical context
      • The main purpose of this question is to test your knowledge of the primary sources
      • Keep your answer concise (probably not more than two sides in the blue books per excerpt)
    • Part 2
      • Spend approximately 45 minutes on Part 2
      • Part 2 will require students to write on three topics (from a choice of five)
      • The topics might be broad and require students to engage in a discussion that goes beyond the readings for a particular week
      • It is vital that students draw on both primary and secondary sources as necessary
      • The aim of this question is to test a student’s grasp of themes, issues, or questions arising from the course and course materials
      • Keep your answers concise but include plenty of precise detail (probably not more than two sides in the blue books per topic)
  • Excerpt ID Example
    • “I see you feel as I do,” said Mr. Enfield. “Yes, it’s a bad story. For my man was a fellow that nobody would have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good. Blackmail, I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. Blackmail House is what I call that place with the door, in consequence. Though even that, you know, is far from explaining all,” he added, and with the words fell into a vein of musing.
    • Robert Lewis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

 

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