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Welcome 2009-10 students!
Welcome to the RHUL Victorian MA blog. We use this site to post materials and weblinks related to seminar texts and to post notices of interest to RHUL Victorianists, including notices of relevant exh… more →
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pugflavoredsub wrote 2 days ago: Here’s a final rough draft of a paper I wrote during my junior year of college… while I … more →
Keynote Speaker Profile: Regenia Gagnier
Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) wrote 1 month ago: Professor Gagnier will be giving an introductory talk entitled ‘Why Interdisciplinarity? … more →
Welcome 2009-10 students!
rhulvictorian wrote 2 months ago: Welcome to the RHUL Victorian MA blog. We use this site to post materials and weblinks related to se … more →
a place for everything and everything in its place
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msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: Here’s a sentence. Do we think Mr Sharp is right? If English Poetry is in danger–and, ac … more →
Have you guys seen this?
thrillseekingbehavior wrote 3 months ago: Lifted from my new favorite website, “Tiny Ghosts”. Somebody clicked on my page looking … more →
Artist Birthdays - August 21: AUBREY BEARDSLEY
Park West Gallery wrote 3 months ago: AUBREY BEARDSLEY (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898) Nationality: English Field: Illustration Art Mov … more →
'Allo boys, I've been away, I've 'ad a bit of a 'oliday
tomwootton wrote 4 months ago: The pen grows rusty in the grip, the ink runs dry and the page remains blank with unexpressed though … more →
Endtimes: Stan's Cafe 'The Carrier Frequency' (1999) and Steve McQueen 'Hunger' (2008)
metafiction wrote 5 months ago: One of the most disconcerting things about Steve McQueen’s Hunger was its beauty. The shit-sme … more →
A Peep at Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market
thrillseekingbehavior wrote 7 months ago: A Peep at Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” In the summer of 1866, Christina’s first and most fam … more →
Oscar Wilde in the Face of Uncertainty
thrillseekingbehavior wrote 7 months ago: Oscar Wilde in the Face of Uncertainty The Victorian Era experienced a “great crisis of faith,” whic … more →
More uninvited intimacy
thrillseekingbehavior wrote 8 months ago: Today I was at the Magnolia Bar bar with my friend. She had plucked a blossom out of a tree and stuc … more →
National Gallery study day: the city (London and Paris) in 19thC art
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rhulvictorian wrote 9 months ago: Dear All, Please see below for notice of an interesting study day at the National Gallery on depicti … more →
Aestheticism & Decadence: D. G. Rossetti
rhulvictorian wrote 1 year ago: The Blessed Damozel (1871-81); Fogg painting 1871-77 Lady Lilith (1868) The Wine of Circe by Edward … more →
Browning's Painter Poems
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rhulvictorian wrote 1 year ago: Thought I’d follow Vicky’s example (below) and post a few images as visual context for t … more →
Reading for Aestheticism & Decadence: Swinburne
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rhulvictorian wrote 1 year ago: Hellenistic sculpture of Hermaphrodite (Louvre)[caption id="attachment_148" align="alignnone" width= … more →
epicurean tat tuesday
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Shane wrote 1 year ago: I pulled this from the LA times. It demonstrates that the Epicureanism that the Apostle Paul enco … more →
Matthew Arnold's Preface to Poems (1853)
rhulvictorian wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been asked whether the text of this famous preface is available online. Probably the best … more →
JOSE GARCIA VILLA, FILIPINO POET IN THE UNITED STATES
philcsc wrote 1 year ago: SALVAGING THE DISAPPEARED POET: The Case of Jose Garcia Villa (Transcript of a lecture at the Univer … more →
EN5280 Aestheticism and Decadence
rhulvictorian wrote 1 year ago: Some possible critical reading for the class on Ruskin on Thursday: John Dixon Hunt, ‘”U … more →
