The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales is a criminal court building in London that was built in 1902 and designed by Edward William Mountford. The building gets the nickname "Old Bailey" from the street it sits on, which followed the same path as the ancient wall that was around London and part of the fortification's bailey. It is well-known from the 1859 Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities. In the novel, Dickens portrays Old Bailey as a fearful place that embodies the uncompromising harshness of the law. This is also where Oscar Wilde was found guilty for "gross indecency" and sentenced to two years in prison.
Engaging English (F20 ENGL 202-02 Purdue) Dashboard
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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
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Individual Entries
Reverend William Miller was born in Pittsfield, Massachussetts but moved to Poultney, Vermont at a young age. It was here in Poultney that Miller would create his following that by 1843 would be estimated to have around 50,000-100,000 people involved. While not every follower really beleived what Miller had to say about the end of the Earth being very near, most couldn't help but to listen out of curiosity. Even with technical limitations in the media, Miller's theories spread through out the United States far outside his home of Poultney, Vermont.
Sources:
Norwood, K. “Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (VTDNP).” Vermont Digital Newspaper Project VTDNP, Flickr, 21 Mar. 2015, library.uvm.edu/vtnp/?p=2765.