For Week III:

 

From Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil

 

J. P. Parry, “Disraeli and England,” Historical Journal 43:3 (Sept., 2000), 699-728

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-246X%28200009%2943%3A3%3C699%3ADAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9

 

John Plotz, "Crowd Power: Chartism, Carlyle, and the Victorian Public Sphere,” Representations 70 (Spring, 2000), 87-114.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0734-6018%28200021%290%3A70%3C87%3ACPCCAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S 

 

 

 

For Week VIII:

 

 

From Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867/1872).

 

 

From Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1869):

 

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/nonfiction_u/arnoldm_ca/ca_ch3.html

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/nonfiction_u/arnoldm_ca/ca_ch4.html

 

(Note: Since doing the syllabus I changed my mind about which chapters I wanted you to read – these are different chapters but from the same book.)