ENG 5361-Victorian Poetry, Reforming Christ's Body Dashboard
Description
Victorian poets were among the most active reformers in an age of reform, intensely restructuring poetic form to reflect upon, contend with, and influence their swiftly changing world. They devoted a tremendous amount of their reconfiguring energy to the body of Christ, understood both as the person of Christ and as those who are members of Christ. For many Victorian poets, reforming poetry entailed reformulating and reimagining Christ's body, often as an agent of reform in the world. In this class, we will examine this vital aspect of Victorian literature and culture in dialogue with rare items at the Armstrong Browning Library. You will create presentations and blog posts on these rare items, and supplement your posts with related entries on our class timeline and map on COVE.
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
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Individual Entries
Throughout her life, The Regent's Park was a central location of Christina Rossetti's surroundings. The Rossetti family lived just off The Regent's Park on Upper Albany Street and Christina often walked past the park to her church, Christ Church, Albany Street. She also frequented one of the park's major attractions, the "zoological forest," later known as the London Zoo, and had access to the park's Royal Botanical Society gardens (until 1932, now Queen Mary's Gardens). Later in her life, Rossetti lived less than mile from the park at 30 Torrington Square, while her brother William lived just north of the park on St. Edmund’s Terrace. As for many Londoners, The Regent's Park offered Rossetti an encounter with nature that was often lacking the typical industrial urban environment of the city. Her contemporary William Sharp, in his Papers critical and reminiscent, recalls Rossetti stating: "...my knowledge of what is called nature is that of the...
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