Blog Post #7 || Oct 29th || Illustrating Tragedy

Submitted by Alicia Beggs-Holder on

I haven't really encountered Salome often or if I did, then it’s usually in brief passing (like I know the name and that’s generally it). But with today’s discussion seminar I was able to actually see the ways in which sexuality and queer culture really impacted the story and its reception to the audience.

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Submitted by Alessia Dickson on

I really enjoyed our discussion on Oscar Wilde's Salome: Tragedy in One Act. While the book was censored in 1892 due to Aubrey Beardsley's nude illustrations, I found it quite surprising that the book was uncensored in 1907 to a conservative twentieth-century audience. Beardsley's illustrations were unlike any of the artwork we have studied thus far in term and that made it especially interesting, One, it was quite interesting to learn that Wilde himself did not like many of Beardsley's illustrations.

Cromer, United Kingdom

In the novel "North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell, Maragret Hale was a character she created, a powerful and independent woman who does not allow herself to adhere to patriarchal Victorian conventions. She challenged stereotypes about women's role in the 19th century. Margaret travels  to Cromer, a seaside town. While in Cromer she spent long periods of time each day sitting at the beach and watching the waves becuase the allowed her to analyze and figure out the significance of her thoughts.

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Submitted by Payton Flood on

Oscar Wilde’s Salome: A Tragedy in One Act, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley was censored when it was first published in French in 1892.  It wasn’t until 1907 that it was republished with all the illustrations now uncensored.  Because of the nudity and sexuality depicted in the illustrations, the play was viewed as inappropriate during the fin de siècle.  Now, we know Salome to be progressive; a work that was ahead of its time and provided great commentary on female sexuality and the male gaze.  Beardsley illustrates from

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Submitted by Simon Mancuso on

For this week's work on Salome I was tasked with presenting my discussion leading question to the class. The process of researching that discussion question posed a number of interesting challenges and opportunities to research the text in greater depth. The process of taking a single image and analyzing it in depth and in a way it can be communicated to the rest of the class in the form of productive discussion was difficult but the practice we have accumulated over our time in this course made the process much easier.

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Submitted by Zeinab Fakih on

The images of Oscar Wilde's Salome illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley are interesting and quite different from many other illustrations in books, poems, and plays we've seen thus far. These images seem to almost contrast with the texts but definitely make a commentary. I felt that, in the images, there was a lot of sexism and homophobia seemingly shown as a way for Beardsley to comment on Wilde's sexuality. There was a lot of play on the male gaze within the illustrations. The focus of the illustrations of the women were on the body of the women rather than the scene as a whole.

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Submitted by Yousef Farhang on

This week we looked at Oscar Wild's 1893 play Salomé which was illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley in the English edition. This text was definitely the most challenging text to analyze especially when it came to its illustrations as Beardsley strangely and most definitely deliberately avoided merely reflecting Wild's text. initially I had a hard time understanding the relationship between text and image due to the illustration's ambiguity's especially when I compared it to Sherlock Holmes and how easily it was to understand the relationship between text and image.

Oscar Wilde's, Salome

Submitted by Patricia Lucreziano on

The analyzing of Salome by Oscar Wilde was extremely interesting to be a part of. Throughout the course of the meeting today we came to a pretty general conclusion that the images by Aubrey Beardsley and the text by Oscar Wilde we're working in two different directions but simultaneously creating a very successful text. With this being said it was apparent that Aubrey Beardsley definitely took his own approach in illustrating for Oscar Wilde's playwright. Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations really take a play on sexuality and gender throughout the entire T of the book.

Sefton

Sefton is referred to as Heston in the book North and South . It is a village located in the Metropolitan Bourough of Merseyside, England. Located to the south west of Maghull and to the north east of Great Crosby, it is on the flood plain of the River Alt. According to Britannica, it extends along the Irish Sea coast from the Ribble estuary (a water passage where the tide meets a river current) in the north to the Mersey estuary in the south.

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