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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 8 Feb 2004 to 9 Feb 2004 (#2004-41)
There are 9 messages totalling 353 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Opium in the 19th century
2. gender and novel-reading
3. Whoops
4. reference in Ruskin
5. Periodization (4)
6. NVSA 2004--The Sacred and the Profane
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:51:27 +0800
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tamara=20Wagner?= <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Opium in the 19th century
A belated addition to the list of studies on opium
(apologies if it has already been mentioned):
Carl Trocki, _Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in
Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910_ (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990).
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 08:51:50 -0000
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: gender and novel-reading
Hi!
I recommend Kate Flint's *The Woman Reader*
All the best
Chris
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:42:36 -0000
From: "Dryden, Linda" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Whoops
Dear All
Profuse apologies! My last email was sent to you by mistake. That Monday
morning feeling.....
Linda
Dr Linda Dryden
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Napier University
Craighouse
Edinburgh EH10 5LG
Tel: 0131 455 6128
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:56:29 -0600
From: roth <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: reference in Ruskin
In his essay "The Deteriorative Power of Conventional Art over Nations" (in
THE TWO PATHS), John Ruskin writes, "I have said elsewhere, 'the root of all
art is struck in the thirteenth century.'" Does anyone know in what essay
or lecture he makes this claim?
Thanks,
Christine Roth
Dr. Christine Roth
Department of English
800 Algoma Boulevard
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:30:57 -0500
From: Erin Webster-Garrett <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Periodization
Dear learned list,
I have been asked by our curriculum committee to update our online,
official syllabus for the Victorian survey. I may be having a "moment,"
but I'm puzzled by the current catalog entry which describes the course
as "Study of important poets and prose writers from 1825-1900." My
question is, why these dates? Why, in particular, the date 1825? I
assume 1900 is a rounding off of the year QV died, but what happened in
1825? What am I forgetting?
Many thanks in advance,
Erin
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Dr. Erin Webster-Garrett
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Radford University
540-831-5203
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http://www.radford.edu/~ewebster2
"There are no dangerous thoughts;
thinking itself is dangerous."
--Hannah Arendt
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:11:28 -0600
From: "Doris H. Meriwether" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Periodization
I look forward also to an answer to the 1825 date. Some mark the end of
the Romantic Age, and thus the beginning of the Victorian Age, with the
death of Byron in 1824. Others take the date of the death of Scott in
1832 as the end of Romanticism and the start of the Victorian Age though
Victoria doesn't come to the thronee until 1837.
Doris Meriwether
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:26:32 -0600
From: Kelly Searsmith <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Periodization
Erin,
Perhaps an argument for 1825 could be that it was the inaugural year of the
first railway to regularly carry people as well as cargo (the Stockton &
Darlington Railroad Company). One could argue the passenger-based rail
ushered in a certain form of popular modernity -- along with the cultural
tensions it both generated and crystallized.
Kelly
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Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:31 PM
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Subject: Periodization
Dear learned list,
I have been asked by our curriculum committee to update our online,
official syllabus for the Victorian survey. I may be having a "moment,"
but I'm puzzled by the current catalog entry which describes the course
as "Study of important poets and prose writers from 1825-1900." My
question is, why these dates? Why, in particular, the date 1825? I
assume 1900 is a rounding off of the year QV died, but what happened in
1825? What am I forgetting?
Many thanks in advance,
Erin
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Dr. Erin Webster-Garrett
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Radford University
540-831-5203
[log in to unmask]
http://www.radford.edu/~ewebster2
"There are no dangerous thoughts;
thinking itself is dangerous."
--Hannah Arendt
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:08:44 -0500
From: Aviva Briefel <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NVSA 2004--The Sacred and the Profane
Conference Announcement:
THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE
The Northeast Victorian Studies Association Annual Meeting--2004
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
April 16-18, 2004
Panels on a wide range of topics, including "Men of Faith," "The Problem of
Belief," "Science and Experimentation," "Textual Conversions," "Religion
and Empire," "Secular Devotions," and "Teaching Victorian Religion."
Keynote speakers include Suzy Anger, Ellis Hanson, and Pamela Thurschwell.
For full program and registration information, go to: www.nvsa.org.
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:44:55 -0500
From: David Latane <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Periodization
It's a rounding off the death of Byron is my guess. However, on January
24 , 1825, Edmund Kean was hooted at Drury Lane while appearing in his
favorite role of Richard III, because of the revelation of his
adulteries. That might be considered the start of the Victorian era.
David Latane
Victorians Institute & VIJ:
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dlatane/VI.html
Stand Magazine
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dlatane/stand.html
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Erin Webster-Garrett wrote:
> Dear learned list,
>
>
>
> I have been asked by our curriculum committee to update our online,
> official syllabus for the Victorian survey. I may be having a
> "moment,"
> but I'm puzzled by the current catalog entry which describes the course
> as "Study of important poets and prose writers from 1825-1900." My
> question is, why these dates? Why, in particular, the date 1825? I
> assume 1900 is a rounding off of the year QV died, but what happened in
> 1825? What am I forgetting?
>
>
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Erin
>
>
>
>
>
> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>
> Dr. Erin Webster-Garrett
>
> Assistant Professor
>
> Department of English
>
> Radford University
>
> 540-831-5203
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.radford.edu/~ewebster2
>
>
>
> "There are no dangerous thoughts;
>
> thinking itself is dangerous."
>
> --Hannah Arendt
>
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