Gallery Exhibits

                          "The Fireside Plate," by George Cruikshank for Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens

This course provides you with the exciting opportunity to engage in primary research by putting together an exhibition on Victorian illustrators.  To recall a term from Beverly Serrell’s Exhibit Labels, our “big idea” is an exploration of a range of Victorian illustrators. You may choose an…

Create galleries of images related to The Woman Question by researching and gathering images related to our readings here. Please see the assignment prompt in Canvas for more info.

Create galleries of images related to the 99% by researching and gathering images related to our readings here. Please see the assignment prompt in Canvas for more info.

Create galleries of images related to the Black Lives Matter unit by researching and gathering images related to our readings here. Please see the assignment prompt in Canvas for more info.

Nadejen's Illustrations of THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL

This is a practice Gallery exhibit for Thiel College's ENG 235 Survey of American Literature class (Spring 2024).

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Our tour consists of a four-stop guide across London, from west to east, following locations throughout Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane. This tour is compiled by Lily Gambrell, Kaitlin Tesvich, Mary Venditti-Kramer, and Sidney Jones.

Our tour takes you to four locations in London and uniquely explores them through the eyes of immigrants. This tour is compiled by Tyler Abercrombie, Garrett Hudder, Melanie Collier, and Lillie Reihing.

Our tour takes you to four locations mentioned in Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop. Tour compiled by: Kaitlyn Bouman, Savanna Davis, Angeline Duda, and Anika Saxena

Our tour of London takes you to four different locations with each stop giving insight into the socioeconomic status of the group that primarily resides there. Tour compiled by: Copelan Richardson, Bella Anthony, Avery Freeman, and Harper Purcell

Our tour takes you through four notable locations for the characters in Romance of a Shop. 

Tour compiled by: Romy Cour, Madi Grant, Nozomi Thacker, Davis Wilkes

 Come see some of the most iconic and culturally significant sites of our tour for all the first-timers!

Tour compiled by: Valencia John, Sophia Pfeiffer, Peyton Lovett, and Shruthi Vikram

Write three gallery pages for Mill and three for Sen, in which you provide an elaboration of an event, person, place, thing with illustrations/photos/maps or whatever visual seems relevant.  This is both a lightly archival project and a creative one.  You can look at examples of gallery pages on COVE to get some ideas about design.  Make sure to provide your source materials on the gallery pages.

Each gallery page should be between 200-300 words.  It should define/…

Join us as we explore the history and significance of prominent locations in Monica Ali's Brick Lane. This tour is compiled by Caroline Harris, Anna Rafferty, Shevlin Harley, and Elisa Smith.

This gallery showcases photographs, portraits, and manuscripts that will provide a thought-provoking lens for women and revolution in America. Women in American literature have challenged societal norms and sparked revolutions through their writing. From the suffragettes to the feminists of the 1960s and beyond, female authors have used their voices to advocate for change and challenge the status quo. Their works have shattered stereotypes, amplified marginalized voices, and paved the way…

Existentialism is best defined as a form of philospohy regarding the pursuit of an explanation for human existence. Many people seek to find out why they are here, and what their purpose; with the development of a new country from the seventeenth century onward, countless colonists had to figure out as a community what it actually meant to be an American. Throughout American history, numerous authors and artists alike have ventured to figure out what it meant to them to be American. The goal…

Our tour spotlights four beautiful locations across the city of London. Tour compiled by: Georgia Swann, Laney George, Haylee Roach, and Emily Weaver

This gallery will feature images that will tell a story of Native American history through the literature, songs, petroglyphs, and speeches of their people. A variety of different Native American tribes and leaders will be featured, in addition to many cultural practices that they partook in. A brief history of the conflict that persisted between these tribes and English colonists will also be highlighted, and the speeches and words of wisdom offered by the leaders of these tribes will be…

This gallery will introduce the transcendentalist movement and connect aspects of literature and philosophy together. The transcendentalist movement is a historical advancement that led to widespread unity of the American people in the 19th century. This movement is attributed to creating safer work environments, greater equal rights for women, and several other liberating idealologies. Many infamous american writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthrone…

This gallery will introduce Dark Romanticism, a literary movement that emerged in the 19th century, explored the darker aspects of human nature and the supernatural. Writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville delved into themes of madness, death, and the unknown, creating works that were both haunting and thought-provoking. One of the key elements of Dark Romanticism was its focus on the individual's inner turmoil and struggle with their own demons. Characters…

 This gallery presents a thought-provoking selection of portraits, images, and other visual works of art that represent the death and rebirth of human legacies, nature, literary movements, cultures, ways of life, and other significant, core characteristics that have defined American history and American literature. The United States, in its almost 250 years of independence, is often known as a place of freedom, and this freedom entails frequent change and new cycles of progress in every…

In the 17th century, chaos began to arise in Salem, Massachusetts. Mysterious illnesses suddenly began to spread like wildfire. One by one, townmembers started to be contained because they were "transmitters" of this disease. Soon, neighboring towns were infected; the only question being who was next? One fatal finger was all that was needed to spread this and costed the lives of many. Then, one day, it all stopped, quiet murmors being the only trace left of the disease. However, this will…

Progress has been one of the defining characteristics of U.S. history; from the Industrial Revolution to Westward Expansion to the Race to the Moon, America established itself as the nation of progress. In many regards, this notion of progress seeps into literature as well, which this exhibit will explore.

When it comes to your everyday history courses, most of the time African American history is glossed over and never talked about. But when African American history is talked about most of the time it is concerning African American males, so with that in mind I decided to take a different route and focus on the African American women and their voices and accompolishments throughout history. 

Step into the shadows and explore the haunting allure of "The Macabre" in this exhibit where darkness meets American literature, and artistry to evoke a chilling fascination with the eerie and the supernatural.

Our beliefs surrounding life and death have cemented their importance within humanity's cultures, beliefs, and very lives. Within this exhibit, the ways of mortality, life, and death, and their various inevitable forms are expressed, as seen through betrayal, love, the significance of nature, the acceptance and resistance against death, religion, and science come together.

This is a collection of images from the London Labour and London Poor, by Henry Mayhew. All of the images are of women and/or girls that are working on the streets throughout the day, including those that are selling fruits on the street to performers on stilts. Mayhew's creation was divdied into 4 volumes published in 1851, mainly broadcasting workers in the 1840's. 

Throughout history, The Great Depression takes a large part of it. The world that we live in was in total shambles, economically and socially. People lost their jobs, became homeless and were starving for food on the street. In history, we always want to see it from a first hand persepective. In this gallery, we will see The Great Depression from the eyes of people whose lives were stripped away from them. 

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