07.02.01: The age of the clerk: Victorian literacy and literature
                     07.02.02: The working classes and the News of the World
                     07.02.03: The middle classes and The Times
                     07.02.04: The industrial class and the Manchester Guardian
                     07.02.05: Popular protest and the political press: The Black Dwarf
                     07.02.06: Mass production and distribution techniques and the press

Lecture/ Seminar Two : The paradigm of change: intellectual life in the 19th century (L8)
           08.01:  Artistic naturalism and romantic poetry: Keats, Shelly, Wordsworth, Byron (VL)
           08.02:  Kant (2): Aesthetics – the noumenal and phenomenal (VL)
           08.03:  Hegel, Geist and the continuing rise of Prussia and the Rhineland (VL)
           08.04:  Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation
           08.05:  Romanticism in music: Beethoven and the cult of Prometheus (VL)
           08.06:  Charles Darwin (1): The Origin of Species
           08.07:  JS Mill, Bentham – utilitarian liberalism and the idea of civic progress
           08.08: Christian revivalism and German biblical criticism – Feuerbach
           08.09 : Karl Marx (1):The German Ideology. (VL)

Lecture/Seminar Three : Springtime of Nations: Europe and America 1830 – 1871 (L9)
           09.01: The 1830 revolution in France and the ideology of socialism (VL)
           09.02: 1848: Nationalism and the crisis of autocracy (VL)
           09.03: 1848: Karl Marx (2): The Communist Manifesto
           09.04: Journalism and realism in the French Second Empire. Emile Zola: Germinal
           09.05: The American civil war and photojournalism
           09.06: Czarist Russia, the Crimean War and the Daily Telegraph
           09.07: Wagner, Bismark – German unification, bureaucracy and the military state
           09.08: Ireland – famine, migration, nationalism and political violence
          
Lecture/Seminar Four : European migration and the dawn of the American Age (L10)
            10.01: The Franco-Prussian War; the Paris Commune and conservatism    
            10.02: Dreyfus, Anti-Semitism and zionism. Zola’s J’Accuse!
            10.03: Austria vs Hungary, Italy and the Slavs. Migration to the USA.
            10.04: Italian unification and the popular cult of Garibaldi
            10.05: Weakness of the Italian state: Sicilian migration the case of the Cosa Nostra
            10.07: New York: The polyglot newspaper audience, ethnic politics, The Democrats
            10.08: Indian Wars and the settlement of  California: William Randolph Hearst (1)

Lecture/Seminar Five : European Imperialism at the end of the 19th century (L11)
           11.01: The German Military-Welfare state: Max Weber on bureaucracy and power
           11.02: Empiricist comparative anthropology: Frazer and The Golden Bough
           11.02: Orientalism, Anthropology and ‘Scientific Racialism’
           11.03: Golden Age technological innovation: electrification, medicine, suburbs
           11.04: Mass literacy: The English newspaper reading public after the Education Act
           11.05: The Conservative Party: philosophy of democracy and mass participation.
           11.06: Friedrich Nietzsche (1): man and superman; Apollo and Dionysus (VL)

Lecture/Seminar Six : Modernism in the arts and literature (L12)
          12.01: Nietzsche (2): The Birth of Tragedy and Also Sprach Zarathustra (VL)
          12.02: Nietzsche and Wagner: the road to the Tristan chord
          12.03: Modernism, art and music (1): Vienna 1900 - Schoenberg, tonality and series
          12.04: Modernism, art and music (2): Harlem 1900 - Jazz and expressionism
          12.05: Sigmund Freud (1) – and literature: sex and character: James Joyce (VL)
          12.06: TS Elliot and the moderns: The Wasteland
          12.07: From Romanticism to Post-Impressionism: From Turner to Monet
          12.08: Paris, Zurich, Milan 1920: DaDa, Futurism, Surrealism and Cinema
          12.09: Weimar culture and German expressionism: Pandora’s Box