deep deep close reading thoughts
Author: ProfKersh
Victorian Queer Archive Texts
Dear class,
In a comment below, please type the title of your text and any other information (author, year, publication history, etc) that you currently have. This will simply serve as a running list for us in class tomorrow.
cheers!
SK
Look! More Victorian Ghosts
Source: But it looks so real! The parallel rise of photography and Spiritualism
In 1862, amateur photographer William H. Mumler of Boston took a self-portrait in his studio, unaware of a ghostly apparition lurking directly behind him. It wasn’t until he viewed the resulting image…
Hablot Knight Browne, The London Stereoscopic Company; The Ghost in the stereoscope; 1856 – 1859. Image and original data provided by Rijksmuseum: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl
The Toast: Women Rejecting Marriage Proposals
HT to Noah for sending this my way! Feel free to post Victorian memes as you encounter them!
Welcome!
Welcome to Victorian Sexualities, fall 2016
Please fill out the following information on your index cards:
- Name
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- One interesting fact to help me get to know you
- On the BACK side and to share with the class—What do you already know about the Victorian period? In other words, what is one thing you know to be Victorian, or as Victorian? (This might be literary, but also a fact about history, fashion, culture, geography, recent TV adaptions, & etc.)