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This course explores the Victorian illustrated book as it came into being, flourished, and evolved during the long nineteenth century.  This writing-intensive Honors Forum course examines how a genre designed for adults found a home in children’s literature at the end of the nineteenth century and gains new expression in our time through the graphic classics, a prescient form of material culture. Students will learn how to evaluate and interpret an illustrated text by “reading” illustrations to decipher meaning, engaging in creative practice to become author-illustrators, and mounting an exhibition of Victorian illustrated books. With the move to online learning at Skidmore College, we will now create our exhibition on the Victorian era and book illustration by joining this group on COVE. Together we will build the exhibition through COVE's Gallery Builder.  Welcome to our group.  And let the fun begin!

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A Victorian Menagerie | Gallery Exhibit

The Victorian era witnessed the rise of animal protection, zoos, pet keeping, natural history, cattle and sheep breeding, vegetarianism, antivivisection, and dog and cat shows.  But it also beheld big game hunting, blood sports, animal abuse, a burgeoning fashion industry that threatened animal populations, and widespread fears of our animal ancestry, sparked by… more

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Victorian London | Map

This map helps us to return to Victorian England and to begin to think like a Victorian.  The map features Hyde Park, which housed the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first ever world's fair.  There wasa large glass structure, dubbed The Crystal Palace by Punch, and it held wonders from all around the world. This account of a visit to the Great Exhibition comes from Charlotte…

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