ENGL 635 -- "Continuities" Schedule

Below is the schedule for the "Continuities" contributions from Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography. For further information about this contribution to class discussion, see the syllabus.

Any changes to the schedule below (such as switching with someone) should be approved in advance; once approved, I will post an updated schedule.

If you would like to sign up for an additional presentation for extra credit towards class participation, please let me know at least one week in advance.
Feb 2
Continuities I: "Blitz," "Refashioning the City" (720-750)
  • [Karin Westman]
Feb 16
Continuities II: "London as Crowd" (383-402), "London's Radicals," "Violent London" (455-490)
  • [Karin Westman]
Feb 23
Continuities III: "From Prehistory to 1066," "The Early Middle Ages" (5-64)
  • Kristin Chaney
Continuities IV: "London Contrasts," "The Late Medieval City," "Onward and Upward," "Trading Streets and Trading Parishes," "A London Neighborhood" (65-134)
  • ___________
March 2
Continuities V: "Crime and Punishment" (237-295)
  • Savannah Greathouse
Continuities VI: "Voracious London" (297-382)
  • Drew Davis
March 16
Continuities VII: "London as Theatre"(134-189)
  • Randi Loyd
March 23
Continuities VIII: "Pestilence and Flame," "After the Fire" (191-236), "Black Magic, White Magic" (491-507)
  • ________
Continuities IX: "A Fever of Building," "London's Rivers," "Under the Ground" (510-560)
  • Kaitlyn Lewis
March 30
Continuities X: "The Centre of Empire," "After the Great War" (685-720)
  • Connor Hoffman
April 20
Continuities XI: "Victorian Megalopolis" (561-585), "Continuities," "East and South" (647-684)
  • ________
Continuities XII: "London's Outcasts," "Women and Children" (587-645)
  • Savannah Greathouse
April 27
Continuities XIII: "The Natural History of London," "Night and Day" (403-453), "Cockney Visionaries" (751-760)
  • ________
Updated 6 April 2021