Blog Post #9: November 12th

Submitted by Fahimah Hamidavi on

This week, we discussed Clemence Housman’s The Were-Wolf and its illustrations that were designed by her brother Laurence Housman and wood engraved by her. One thing that really stood out to me about this course and all of my classmates’ presentations was how political the Housman’s art often was. The choice by Clemence to make the Were-Wolf a female and portray has as an incredibly fierce and strong figure might not seem very radical to us now, but at a time when women had very little agency and rights, it was.

Plymouth Rock

Plymouth Rock is the location that the narrator (the runaway slave) of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's  "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" escapes to from the Carribean. We can see that this location was symbolic and the connection between the runaway slave and the pilgrims who fled from religious persecution is clear, as the location does not make sense geographically.

Module 9 Blog Post

Submitted by Justin Hovey on

Something I found interesting in this week's study of Clemence Housman's The Were-Wolf is the similarity in framing between Laurence Housman's illustrations and many of the Pre-Raphaelite illustrations (e.g., those by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais) we looked at while studying The Moxon Tennyson and "Goblin Market." Like the Pre-Rapaelites, Housman adapts to the dimensional constraints the genre of book illustrations imposes by depicting only slices of the scenes being illustrated - there often seems to be more going on out o

ENG 910: English Capstone Seminar: Week Nine

Submitted by Anjali Jaikarran on

This week's seminar focused on Clemence Houseman's The Werewolf, an author and illustrator, who was also the sister of Laurence Houseman. Clemence Houseman was an avid supporter of the women's suffrage movement and was known for flouting gender norms; this is further seen in her work, The Werewolf, which depicts a female werewolf. I think this very interesting since the depictions of female werewolves are rare as werewolves symbolize hypermasculinity, monstrosity, and giving in to one's baser needs.

ENG 910: English Capstone Seminar: Week Nine

Submitted by Anjali Jaikarran on

This week's seminar focused on Clemence Houseman's The Werewolf, an author and illustrator, who was also the sister of Laurence Houseman. Clemence Houseman was an avid supporter of the women's suffrage movement and was known for flouting gender norms; this is further seen in her work, The Werewolf, which depicts a female werewolf. I think this very interesting since the depictions of female werewolves are rare as werewolves symbolize hypermasculinity, monstrosity, and giving in to one's baser needs.

ENG 910: English Capstone Seminar: Week Nine

Submitted by Anjali Jaikarran on

This week's seminar focused on Clemence Houseman's The Werewolf, an author and illustrator, who was also the sister of Laurence Houseman. Clemence Houseman was an avid supporter of the women's suffrage movement and was known for flouting gender norms; this is further seen in her work, The Werewolf, which depicts a female werewolf. I think this very interesting since the depictions of female werewolves are rare as werewolves symbolize hypermasculinity, monstrosity, and giving in to one's baser needs.

Module 9 blog

Submitted by Yousef Farhang on

This week we discussed Clemence Housman’s wood-cut engraving illustrations of The Were-Wolf. This work initially caught my attention due to its gothic elements which I was interested in exploring especially because it was the only work which included a female were wolf as its main character. During today's presentation, I enjoyed the background information on both Clemence Housman and Laurence Housman's support for women's rights as it definitely shifts the meaning behind a lot of the illustrations.

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