Hôtel de Ville

The Hôtel de Ville became the main location for official meetings of the Paris Commune Central Committee. It was where financial issues where handled, where new legislation was created, and where citizens could gather to voice complaints or other ideas. No women were allowed to vote or be elected members of the Central Committee, however there role as caregivers and clothes makers become valorized by the feminist movements of the time. The Rothschild Bank loans were also handled at the Hôtel de Ville by Francis Jourde.

Blackwell/Roosevelt Island

Blackwell Island was an infamous island in New York, especially in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. On this island there was an insane asylum, New York City Lunatic Asylum, a smallpox hospital, poorhouses, a general hospital, and workhouses. The roots of this island are tied to the roots of discrimination against those of lower class, foreign people and people with mental illnesses. Blackwell Island is probably most known from Nellie Bly's book about the asylum she went undercover in.

Blog #5 || Oct. 8

I found the process of curation an interesting exercise because it challenged us to look at texts in the context of their production rather than their textual content. This is, for the most part, the opposite of what we have been trained to do as English students. It was nonetheless interesting to analyze a text in the context of its production: its history, its publishers, its editors, etc.

ENG 910- Blog Post #5

While going over the curations for the different "Globlin Market"  versions through the years and while studying my own assignment of the Beyond the looking glass rendition of "Globlin Market" I took into account the audience for the poem. Through the years the target audience has been changed even though the text has been the same. Though it was not originally meant for children and was seen as an adult text, through the years it has been interpreted as a childrens text at times.

ENG 910: Week Five Blog Post

During the virtual presentation of different editions and renditions of “Goblin Market” from Ryerson’s Archives and Special Collections it was interesting to see how many versions of this one text have been published internationally, especially the little pocket version. When tasked with individually curating these different editions for an exhibition, it was a challenge to find precise information because of how many different editions have been circulated over time.

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