This weeks class was really intriguing to me in a couple of ways. As I mentioned in my blog post last week, I have already read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol a few times, though I didn’t focus much energy on the images in the novella. Doing some more research this week on those images to find out who illustrated them and how he did so was really interesting. I am looking forward to analyzing these illustrations more next week when after rereading the book with more attention to the images. 

While I was going over the syllabus last week, I clearly missed that we are going to be reading selections from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories are one of my favourite anthologies of all time so I am really looking forward to rereading a few of them! I have read from several different editions of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but none of my editions have ever included many illustrations, so hearing that there are actually over 100 in that collection was quite shocking to me! I am looking forward to studying these images and seeing how they enhance and alter my understanding of the stories.