(Delayed) final class thoughts
Hi Professor, I’m going to say that I needed an extra day to summarize my feelings about the course before I could …
The Green Sheaf and Identity Attribution
I appreciated so much about today’s class. I’m so grateful to address alternative Victorian identities and art through the Green Sheaf, and …
The Pageant: The Dial’s Big Sister?
I loved seeing the maturation and expansion of some of The Dial‘s ideas in The Pageant today. The reflective and neurotic self-explication …
The artistic direction of the Evergreen
I loved seeing the Egyptian-stylized art in the fourth volume of The Evergreen. I went and looked at the book itself and found other …
The Restless River and Traditions of the Fractured Fairy Tale
I found Evelyn Sharp’s fairy tale The Restless River, and our subsequent discussion of the role of subversive or counter-culture fairy tales, to …
Gazing at “Claques”: A Feminist Reading of Sickert’s Ada Lundberg
Something I particularly love about literary criticism is the ability to close read texts through different critical theories and unearth distinct meanings …
A Little Context: Puritanism, Decadence, and the Trial of Oscar Wilde
I loved learning about the historical context of the scandals that involved the Yellow Book, and little magazines’ creators sometimes (possibly) had …
Consumption and Production in Little Magazines
The final major element in the development of modernity was commercial: marked by a special interest in the consumer and in ways …