Each of the entires in this timeline either explain the cultural climate that Ann Radcliffe's On the Supernatural was borne of, or provide historical context for the events leading up to said climate.
Fall 2021-ENGL2540 Dashboard
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ENGL 2540-Brit Lit II, Fall 2021, Dr. Heather Witcher, AUM
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" focuses on the sexual stigma women faced in the Early 1900s. Women had to live up to the social standards of being objects in the male dominated world and their decisions of being "Fallen Woman" or "Angel I'm House " proves their value. Rossetti's poems touched on the role of feminism and religion. In this timeline, I will bring reflection to certain Historical events that influenced Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" and the role of women in the early 1900s.
My gallery is going to focus on the poem "Dulce Et Decorum" and the argument is that outsiders will never understand what people who actually had to fight in the war went through. They all think that it was all just an herioc event. They don't know that it was some of the most horrid things that can happen to men, things that would change how those men think and live.
This is a gallery with the purpose to illustrate the events that inspired The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Mary Shelley wrote her Frankenstein in the 18th century and was inspired by many of the great changes taking place around the world such as politics, economics and many aspects of science. Especially the development of the period of romanticism literature. My timeline will show what influenced Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus.
Samuel-Taylor Coleridge was influenced by several movements and events back in the day. In his work known as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", all these influences and events are reflected in the story and heavily orientated the elements involved in the story and in the characters. In this timeline, I will show all those events that influenced this specific work and give images and descriptions of all this.
Women during the 19th century were objectified and classified as "Fallen Women" and/or "Angel in the House". During this time, there were a lot of male painters or photographers that presumed on this subject itself. In this timeline, I will portray images of such fallen women during the 19th century and give broad details and gruesome stories on many antics during the time.
This gallery is a collection of artworks and images curated to exhibit occurrences and events during the 20th Century. Significantly, events surrounding WWI and the emergence of Modernism. The influences of The Great War endorsed literary modernism, which acknowledged the challenges brought upon due to the war. It encouraged modern and progressive thought and influenced the desire for progressive change, individualism, women's rights, and more. Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen is an anti-war poem that reveals how gruesome and tragic the act of war is. Wilfred Owens's use of vivid imagery and emphasis on realism in Dulce Decorum est changed society's perspective by revealing the horrors of World War I.
World War One was the defining shift from a society characterized by Victorian ideologies, to one that had adopted a Modernist worldview. The War was a wake-up call of sorts, forcing society to question everything from gender roles, class systems, and more importantly, the art of war. For centuries, despite the negative outcomes brought on by war, it was widely beleived that dying for one's country was the proper thing to do--it was heavily romanticized. But unlike previous wars, World War One impacted society on a global scale in just a few short years. No longer was war a "sweet and fitting" thing, and the public had to face this reality as the true horrors of the Great War unfolded before them....
My timeline is going to focus on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and it's historical and cultural contextualization with movements like the French Revolution and Romanticism. I will also discuss certain events that occur during these movements and their relationship with Frankenstein.