After the introductory class today, I am quite interested in focusing on artistic representations of Victorian literature. I have taken a few courses that look at the intersection between literature and visual media, including Studies in Visual Culture and Studies in Word and Image, in addition to the small portions other courses that focused on art, such as Romanticism. Two texts in particular that I am interested in looking at in this way are A Christmas Carol and "Goblin Market." A Christmas Carol stands as one of the most adapted works of literature, so I am very interested to see how artistic representations from the Victorian Era are different or similar to modern representations, including the graphic novel that is assigned. Like many others, "Goblin Market" is a poem that I had previously studied, with illustrations of the poem being a brief portion of the lecture. I am looking forward to revisiting the poem, and having a larger focus on its artistic representations, and how the variation between these artworks inform the poem in different ways. I am still worried about how this type of class will function virtually over Zoom, however, this first class did reassure me somewhat with how smoothly it went.