This gallery is designed to demonstrate through the use of imagery how Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" is a commentary on the social expectations surrounding Victorian women and their sexuality.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein using graphic imagery to expose romanticism during the 19th century and to help her readers understand the supernatural in science by using Frankenstein as a reinvented life created from her belief of galvanism.
Exposing the truth about England in 1819, Phercy Selley, creates a treasonist sonnet attacking leaders such as George 111. The sonnet exposes England by using imagery and analogies to show how the military and leaders were corrupt. It describes how blind they were to issues in society such as deadly diseases spreading rapidly and unequal rights between men and women that needed to be adressed. It also tells how rulers leeched on their citizens without facing consequences. Throughout the never ending problems Percy Shelley argued that through reform there is still hope for a better nation.
The exhibits in this gallery have been selected by students in the process of writing their 'object exploration' essays. Each object relates to course texts and themes, as explained in the accompanying descriptions.
In the pre-raphaelite era, there was a good portion of ridicule toward female sex workers, and it influened their artwork tremendously. Many writers, such as Robert Browining and Christina Rossetti, wrote about the dangers in being a prostitute and where it can lead women to land if they were to live that kind of life.
I want to focus on the poem we read by Christian Rossetti, Goblin Market, and the fear the two sisters encountered, and the roles each person played. Along with the actions that came behind the encountering of the goblins.
Here we are describing and showcasing historical events that shows significance of trauma and the concept of morality on characters in "The Body Snatchers" by Stevenson.
Poems such as "Dulce Et Decorum" describe the challenges and hardships brought on by WWI. It had been a while since a war this large had broken out and it also brought fear to the people as well mental and physical damage to the soldiers that were fighting. Modernism also has an influence since it represents the start of a new era, but unfortunately, this new era which was the 20th century started off pretty rough with the Great War occurring.
World War One was the defining shift from a society characterized by Victorian ideologies, to one that had adopted a Modernist worldview. The War was a wake-up call of sorts, forcing society to question everything from gender roles, class systems, and more importantly, the art of war. For centuries, despite the negative outcomes brought on by war, it was widely beleived that dying for one's country was the proper thing to do--it was heavily romanticized. But unlike previous wars, World War One impacted society on a global scale in just a few short years. No longer was war a "sweet and fitting" thing, and the public had to face this reality as the true horrors of the Great War unfolded before them....
This gallery is a collection of artworks and images curated to exhibit occurrences and events during the 20th Century. Significantly, events surrounding WWI and the emergence of Modernism. The influences of The Great War endorsed literary modernism, which acknowledged the challenges brought upon due to the war. It encouraged modern and progressive thought and influenced the desire for progressive change, individualism, women's rights, and more. Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen is an anti-war poem that reveals how gruesome and tragic the act of war is. Wilfred Owens's use of vivid imagery and emphasis on realism in Dulce Decorum est changed society's perspective by revealing the horrors of World War I.
As we know, Australia was initially a penal colony created by Britain. In 1597, the initial law of banishment was introduced to England and convicts began to be shipped around the New World. However, beginning in 1770, convicts were shipped to Botany Bay, the first penal colony in Australia. Originally discovered in 1770 and charted for Britain by James Coo who called the land New Wales. Cook's first interaction with the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, the Gwaegal, was not peaceful, firing by gun and spear was present at Cook's and the two men's first meeting. Dr. Shayne T. Williams, Ph.D explains the context behind this first documented interaction. As a descendant of the Australian indigenous group the Dharawal, he explains that "In our cultures it is not permissible to enter another culture’s Country without due consent. Consent was always negotiated." and explains that both the protection of territory as well as the negotiation were spiritual in...
England 1819 is about the Peterloo Masacar and why the masacar happened under the rule of King George IV.
The Massacre of Peterloo took place in Manchester England on August 16,1819. This massacre killed 18 people and injured many. King George IV ruled at the time and he and his father King George III did not care about the low class people. This event happened becuase the people wanted to take back what was theirs.
Wilfred Owen used his own experiences during World War I to contradict the translation of one of his most notable poems, "Dulce et Decorum Est" with gruesome forms of imagery.
The Goblin market used symbols and imagery to explain the dept of the view of women in this period of time. This poem opens up about womens sexual aspect in this certain century amd how they were suppose to be seen as pure, and angelic, this poem by Christina Rosetti explains the tempation and dangers of sin which is symbolized throughout the poem.Women were sought to be pure only to be wanted and married by men.Based on Victorian era, and the commentary this poem is set on in this early era strict rules about sexuality was set in place.Women virginty was seen as purity and looked upon while others without it were seen as prostitues and looked down upon.Pre raphaelite showed woman as sexual creatures, and challenge of gender norms.Women and gender roles in the nineteenth century is also inbedded by Christina in Goblin market from the time period of nineteenth century women were suppose to stay pure for their husbands, and care only for the household while men had the opportunity...
My gallery is going to focus on the poem "Dulce Et Decorum" and the argument is that outsiders will never understand what people who actually had to fight in the war went through. They all think that it was all just an herioc event. They don't know that it was some of the most horrid things that can happen to men, things that would change how those men think and live.
Each image in this gallery is art inspired by Jane Eyre or art that was included in publications of the novel. Often, in republications of a novel, an artist will be comissioned to illustrate the novel. These images were all published in editions from 1897 to 1992. Most of the artists' renditions stuck to the gothic theme of Jane Eyre, but Kathy Mitchell's later illustrations are bright and interpret the text diffeerently.
To read James Malcolm Rymer's A Mystery in Scarlet in its original publication context, accompanied by other contents of The London Miscellany no. 1-18 (1866), please see the bound copy of that periodical in the collection of the Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. This copy lacks the series of four promotional color prints titled Rich and Poor and accompanying the serial of that name; these prints are accessible elsewhere in this COVE edition. Please access it viaGoogle Play.
Basins were a staple necessity in Victorian homes that served a wide variety of uses that could be found in various rooms around the house; however, their importance in this era was the way in which they were revolutionized in the newly distinguished lavatory rooms. For while it was once common for upper and middle class families to wash in their bedrooms using heated or chilled water brought from downstairs in basins, the Victorian era saw a change into having dedicated rooms for bathing. The basin thus served as the perfect transitional tool during this period as it was the main transporter of bathing water that would soon be replaced by geysers and hot water pipes. In a tub, you would often scoop the water and pour it over yourself with a basin to emulate a rinsing sensation. Lavatory basins used for bathing were not their only functional use at time, for they were also common within maintaining a hygienic waste disposal process. They were often attached to pan closets, in which...
Facsimile gallery of Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys: William Morris. Edited by Adriana Culverhouse and Mary Schreiner (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay). The copy derives from the personal collection of Mary Schreiner.
In 2019-2022, Wes R. Schroeder undertook a challenging and exciting luthiering project: to make a playable replica of "that silent token," "Shelley's" guitar. That guitar, made by Pisan luthier Ferdinando Bottari in c.1816, was given by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to Jane Williams in 1822, and is now in the collection of the Bodleian Library, identified as "Shelley Relics no. 1." This exhibit documents Schroeder's luthiering of a replica of the "ex-Jane Williams." The replica is not an exact copy. The design process involved judicious conjecture about the composition of inaccessible features, a mixture of historical and modern materials, and slight adjustments for robustness and playability. However, in the replica, it is now possible to hear an approximation of the sound of the ex-Williams for the first time in over 200 years.
