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...
Engaging English (F20 ENGL 202-02 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 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 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.
Individual Entries
Ellis Island is one of the most famed entryways to America in all US history. Ellis Island was a product of necessity; the 19th century saw turmoil and instability throughout the whole of Europe. This resulted in the largest mass migration of people in all history to date, many of whom sought life in America. An immigration facility called Castle Garden has been used prior, but was ill-equipped to handle the massive influx of immigrants coming to the US. Ellis Island immigration facility opened January 1, 1892.
On June 15, 1897, a fire broke out in the Ellis island facility and burned the structure to the ground. Decades worth of immigrant documentation was lost in the fires. Five years of construction ensued and a new facility was built atop the old structure. The new facility was considered fireproof and reopened its doors in December of 1900. In its first day of reopening alone, over 2,200 immigrants were accepted into the facility.
Ellis Island welcomed...
moreLane, Kansas, is the present-day location in which the Pottawatomie Massacre occured, a pivotal event in the abolitionist cause preceding the Civil War in the United States. This was the location of the violent abolitionist event orchestrated by John Brown, a radical abolitionist, and very impactful character within the history of the Civil War, and general slavery in the United States. Lane, Kansas is a small town that lies along the banks of the Pottawatomie Creek on the eastern side of Kansas.
The first established location on the journey to freedom through the Underground Railroad was founded here. The conductor who hosted this location went by the name of Richard Eells. He was a man of great passion for saving the lives of slaves in the United States: elected as president of the Addams County Anti-slavery Society in 1839 and 1843. On the way to north and east Chicago, then eventually Canada, his home was the beginning of a very long journey. The placement of this home was one of great convenience, but also great danger. It was built right across the border of Missouri— a slave state. One of the main encounters of this danger was experienced when Eells was caught by members of a slave catching group. Charley, the runaway slave Eells attempted to help, was seen by awaiting men as his head popped up from beneath a buffalo robe. The fugitive ran quickly to avoid being captured but was later returned to the brother of his previous owner. Eells was able to return home...
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