HISTORY 716 / Social and Cultural History of Victorian Canada, 1840-1914

3 unit(s)

M. Gauvreau

This seminar course provides an intensive introduction to the major themes and historiographic currents in nineteenth-century Canadian history. It will focus on the emergence of a more activist state in the wake of the Rebellions of 1837, the transformation of rural society, changing patterns of Victorian religious life and experience, gender ideologies and practices in the Victorian family, the growing segmentation of society into classes, and movements of social reform.