Honestly speaking, as I've ben enrolled in classes that delve into or touch on the Victorian period and its significant pieces, it usually ends up as either a hit or miss for me (interest-wise). But the fact that this course will be using both texts and the images accompanied with them from the time of it being published is a unique spin. I never heard of COVE and it’s intimidating (as I have no clue what I’m doing, still getting used to this as a whole—Zoom included). But I think it’s going to be interesting in having a bunch of students come together to create interactive exhibits.

Artistically speaking, I’m very curious in the numerous art styles of people within the Victorian period. It would be cool to compare how things have evolved or remained the same from the illustrations for stories today and back then. Like whether or not the things we don’t bat an eye to or consider it as part of “the norm” (nudity and eroticism, gore etc) would have appeared in a similar fashion, been censored somehow (a “watered down illustration, so to speak) or just have them clutching their pearls in shock. It’s funny to think about. Even then, the fact that there have been so many renditions and adaptations of A Christmas Carol (movies, shows, books, webcomics and the like), it really shows how influential the Victorian era is.