Browse Exhibits (7 total)
Victorian Literature 2015: The Shivering Sand: Sexism and Subversion in Collins’ The Moonstone
This exhibit is designed to showcase my research in regards to the role of the Shivering Sand in Collins' "The Moonstone." In my essay I argue for a gender-based understanding of the Shivering Sand imagery. That is, the Shivering Sand can be understood as both an indication of the sexism that women experience in society, and a representation of the defiance and subversion of that sexism.
In this exhibit one will also find some details on the sources I used in my research, and also an examination of some portrayals of the Shivering Sand in popular culture.
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Victorian Literature 2015: 'Houselessness' and Insomnia in Dickens' 'Night Walks'
A close reading of liminality in Charles Dickens' 'Night Walks' from The Uncommerical Traveller, using the analogy of insomnia in order to understand homelessness or in late-victorian England.
Victorian Literature 2015: Betteredge: The Victorian Man
This exhibit compiles material regarding Victorian views towards marriage as well as the East/Orient. The exhibit is centered around the idea that the character of Betteredge in Wilkie Collins' novel The Moonstone is an example of the quintessential Victorian man. Readers can see this through Betteredge's dialogue and descriptions of his marriage as well as Lady Verinder's and in regards to anything associated with the East, i.e. the Indians and the Diamond.
Victorian Literature 2015: Investigating Imperial Relationship and The Moonstone
This exhibit will examine the correlations between character relationships within Wilkie Collins' novel, The Moonstone, drawing upon a critical article by Timothy L. Carens. It will also look at the poem, "The White Man's Burden," by Rudyard Kipling, in order to further investigate British attitudes toward the colonies. In addition, this exhibit will look at the Koh-i-Noor diamond in an excerpt from The Illustrated Exhibitor, a publication meant to guide Victorian visitors through the Great Exhibition.
Victorian Literature 2015: The Cry of the Children
This exhibit examines Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "The Cry of the Children" and her strategic use of poetry to address the social injustices of child labor during the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century.
