Course Description
Summary
Time collapses while industry and science expands. Looking to the future, the Victorians clung to sentimentality as a response to a world that seemed to have industrialized overnight. From Arnold to Wilde, we鈥檒l explore the prevailing poets of the Victorian era alongside investigations into Victorian visual culture, photography, and paper arts. In a time when letters were burned and books a luxury, we鈥檒l take a tour of the Victorian relationship to paper and literacy. We鈥檒l learn about disappearing buildings, the fragility of images on wet-glass, the art of illustration, and personal book-making. We鈥檒l dwell within the ideas of ephemerality, trickery, and mimicry. Students will be required to write critically on poems and also produce ephemera inspired by the Victorians.
