Engaging English (F20 ENGL 202-01 Purdue) Dashboard
Description
This class will teach you how to surf (the Internet) and about the various ways that English studies have been transformed over the last few decades. Starting with some basic close-reading and analysis skills (aided by annotation at COVE Studio), we will then explore how those skills have been increasingly applied to new areas of inquiry (tv, film, culture, critical theory, and politics). Throughout, we will employ new digital tools that change the way we approach our subjects of inquiry, including Web annotation, timeline-building, gallery-building and GIS mapping. As we proceed, we will consider the nature of English studies: What is an English department and how does it relate to the rest of the university? What can you do with an English degree? Why is it necessary to fight for English in an increasingly STEM-oriented world?
Scroll down to "Galleries, Timelines, and Maps" in order to add items to our collective map, timeline and gallery exhibit.
Our texts at COVE Studio:
William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us" (published 1807) | William Wordsworth, "Surprised by Joy" (published 1815)
Percy Shelley, "To Wordsworth" (published 1816) and "England in 1819" (written 1819, published 1839) | Percy Shelley, "Lift not the painted veil" (published 1824)
John Keats, "If by these dull rhymes" (written 1819, published 1836)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet #22 and 32, Sonnets from the Portuguese (published 1850)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Sonnet" (published 1881) | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Portrait" (Sonnet 10 of The House of Life; written 1869, published 1881) | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Body's Beauty" (Sonnet 78 of The House of Life; published 1881)
Christina Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio" (written 1856, published 1896)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur" (written 1877, published 1918) | Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring" (published 1918) | Gerard Manley Hopkins, "As kingfishers catch fire" (published 1918)
Jericho Brown, "The Tradition" (published 2015)
William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" (published 1924)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part One (published 1902) | Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part Two (published 1902) | Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part Three (published 1902) | Click here for Cannon Schmitt's COVE Editions version of Heart of Darkness
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
This gallery is part of ENGL 202's build assignment. Research something having to do with race, gender, class and/or sex in the nineteenth century, and then contribute what you have learned to our shared class resource. As the assignment states, "Add one timeline element, one map element and one gallery image about race, class or gender/sex in the 19th century to our collective resources in COVE. Provide sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural detail that you are presenting. Consider interlinking the three objects if they are related." I have provided one image as an example of what is required.
This map is part of ENGL 202's build assignment. Research some aspect of race, gender, class, and/or sex in the nineteenth century, and then contribute what you have learned to our shared class resource. As the assignment states, "Add one timeline element, one map element and one gallery image about race, class or gender/sex in the 19th century to our collective resources in COVE. Provide sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural detail that you...
This timeline is part of ENGL 202's build assignment. Research some aspect of the nineteenth century that teaches us something about race, class, or gender and sexuality and then contribute what you have learned to our shared class resource. As the assignment states, "Add one timeline element, one map element and one gallery image about race, class or gender/sex in the 19th century to our collective resources in COVE. Provide sufficient detail to explain the...
Individual Entries
Giuseppe Mazzini, the creator of the Young Italy Movement, had plans of ending the Austrian occupation and wanted a unified Italy; he took refuge living in London as an exile. Austrian ambassador, Baron Philipp von Neumann was not eager about Mazzini’s plans, and requested to the British Secretary of State for the Home Department, Sir James Graham, that he keep a close eye on Mazzini. This led to an issue of a warrant on the first of March in 1844 which completely transformed the link between privacy and communication.
Months later in June, Thomas Duncombe, from Finsbury, argued that Mazzini should be valued the right to privacy and should be exempt from having his letter taken and copied for examination. Duncombe stated, “Parliament placed its confidence in the individual exercising this power, it was not for the public good to pry or inquire into particular causes which called for their exercise...
moreThis is where Madame Restell built her brownstone mansion and ran her business where she would provide pills (abortifacents), operations, and even housing for women who wanted to have their baby in secret or perhaps even put it up for adoption. She would charge rich women more than poor women, working on a sliding scale depending on the specific woman's needs.Through these various services, she accumulated a considerable amount of wealth that seemed to save her from persecution for a long time. It is said that she might have chosen this specific location for her home and business to spite the first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, John Hughes, who had bought the next block to build a church and had it out for Madame Restell specifically. She continued to run her business out of this new home despite her now infamous and widespread reputation.
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moreThe 19th century saw a myriad of events for the extended rights of women across the United States. The first Women’s Rights Convention being held at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. However, the Convention taking place at Akron, Ohio in 1851 was significant as Ohio was in a state of reform and the objective of this Convention was to contend for the Suffrage rights of Women in the state of Ohio and in US overall. This conference petitioned the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851 to grant women the right to vote. Numerous speakers like Gage and Sojourner Truth delivered speeches and it is Truth’s popularized address ‘Ain’t I a Woman’ that was delivered at this very Convention. These abolitionist speakers however came to find at this Convention that their goals were ridiculed by the local authorities and men and ministers disrespected and ridiculed the speakers. The Ohio Constitution of 1851 denied women the right to vote despite all efforts.
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