LIT 4047 Victorian Literature (PLNU) ~ Novels of Class, Gender, and Race Dashboard
Description
This group is the COVE Editions place for our LIT 4047 Victorian Literature course. Here in COVE Editions is where we will collaboratively and individually build our timeline, map, and possibly gallery assignments. We will work to get a stronger sense of the Victorian Period--its literature, culture, and history--by our work on these digital documents.
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
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Individual Entries
The Salvation Army Barracks in London served both as a place to house members of the Salvation Army and a place to serve the working poor and those in need in London. They provided services such as food, clothing, and a place to sleep and rest. Captain Lobe is stationed there in A City Girl before being deployed to unknown whereabouts.
“Exposure: Salvation Army Barracks, Photographed by Jack London.” Design Observer, https://designobserver.com/feature/exposure-salvation-army-barracks-by-j....
The scene that Mary Seacole describes at Chagres is brief but compelling. She states that she had "never seen a more luckless, dreary spot" (18). The climate of the area was extremely damp and putrid, causing most of the inhabitants of Navy Bay to be under constat seige from viruses and other sicknesses. Seacole only spent a single night in Chagres, and yet her expertise and medical supplies were used on the men in hopes of treating them. She noted that nothing in her medicine chest could help these men; what they needed was warmth, nourishment, and fresh air. She got out of that town as soon as she could.
The Sahara is a desert on the African Continent. It is the third-largest desert in the world. The first two are the deserts of the Arctic and Antarctica. The desert covers most of North Africa and has been inhabited by numerous people groups spanning thousands of years. European colonialism began in the 19th century with the countries of Spain, France, and Britain. The Sahara region had been divided into several countries but they were colonized by European powers. Britain began protecting Egypt including Sudan in 1882. Sudan is a country with its borders in the Sahara. This desert became a ground for colonization, fighting, and eventually freedom for the countries that dwelled there. In The Half-Caste the LePoer’s go to Belfast, but because it is so isolating for them the narrative voice compares it to the Sahara desert.
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