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With the popularity of eBooks and Kindles, do you fear book covers are becoming extinct? Tim Kreider laments in “The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover” (published in The New Yorker, July 16, 2013), “soon enough, book covers, like album covers before them—like albums themselves, or sheet music for popular songs, or dance cards—will be a quaint,…

The Bronte Sisters by Branwell Bronte, ca. 1834 

With the popularity of eBooks and Kindles, do you fear book covers are becoming extinct? Tim Kreider laments in “The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover” (published in The New Yorker, July 16, 2013), “soon enough, book covers, like album covers before them—like albums themselves, or sheet music for popular songs, or dance…

With the popularity of eBooks and Kindles, do you fear book covers are becoming extinct? Tim Kreider laments in “The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover” (published in The New Yorker, July 16, 2013), “soon enough, book covers, like album covers before them—like albums themselves, or sheet music for popular songs, or dance cards—will be a quaint, old-timey thing you have to explain to the uninterested young” (p. 4). However, Kreider qualifies in…

Each set of photos presents (1) an attempt at an innocent view; (2) an attempt to frame a constructed view; and (3) an attempt to impose an argument by inserting an object that transforms the landscape with ergon and parergon.

Media images of landscapes that are comparatively wild and inaccessible, yet that present an agreeable contrast with the daily domestic environment of the targeted consumer.

This gallery is a collection of photos that surrounds the theme of identity and belonging within the 18th century to the present in British Literature. The images below are either directly related to or closely related to a few of the literature works from the Romantic period, Victorian period, and 20th and 21st centuries.

Looking across the Romantic era, Victorian period, and the modern era in British literature, the theme of “otherness” has consistently been present, but portrayed in different ways. At times, it aims to establish a social hierarchy and deem one group as superior and the other as inferior. Other times, it just generates an us-versus-them mentality that large groups adopt. While both may be true, it’s…