Museum/The London Zoo

Located at the Northern End of Regent's Park, at the boundary of Camden and Westminster, lies the London Zoo. Established on April 27, 1828, the zoo was originally only accessible to members of the Zoological Society.  Sir Stamford Raffles and Sir Humphry Davys are responsible for the birth of this landmark after obtaining the land shortly before Raffles' death in 1826. Davys' managed to push forward in their plans, honoring his colleague's legacy, and oversaw the creation of the zoo.

Week 2 Blog Response

Submitted by Alexandra Monstur on

For today's class, my group was assigned to give an overview of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Though I have read some of Doyle's work before, I have never seen it in its original illustrated format. I found this to be particularly fascinating because the images work to bring the text to life, and - in my opinion - help solidify Sherlock Holmes as the iconic fictional character he continues to be today.

Module 2

Submitted by Zeinab Fakih on

The one thing I found most surprising and interesting when discussing illustration through history is the different mediums used. I never thought about different mediums of books and illustrations ever being a thing but, after researching with my group, I found the illustrations of the book we were looking at were wood carvings. I thought that was really cool.

Week Two Blog Post

Submitted by Alessia Dickson on

This week my group was tasked with creating a general summary for House of Joy by Laurence Houseman. Truthfully, this task was a struggle for me at first as I am still not fully comfortable with using Cove or locating where resources are in the D2L page. However, once I began working on the task, I actually found the book and its illustrations very intriguing. I was surprised to learn that the House of Joy was a book of adult fairytales as at the time, fairytales were considered taboo for young children.

Blog Post 2 Sept.17

Submitted by Simon Mancuso on

Entering into the second week of the course I was excited to begin studying the content and analyzing these victorian era illustrations. Following the lecture and the course readings for this week there were a number of things that I found to be both incredibly interesting and challenging. Firstly with regard to the course readings, I found it difficult to fully understand the male/female relationship between text and image as it was described in the article.

ENG910- Blog Post #2

Submitted by Andrea Aguiar on

This week my group was asked to create the time line entry for Clemence Houseman's The Were-Wolf. At first I was a bit intimidated by this task, considering that I was not (and still am not) fully comfortable with using the COVE tools to post work and exhibits online. It really helped working in a smaller group, as i found that the three of us were able to clairfy any questions for one another and gage how to go about creating the timeline post.

Blog #2 || Sept. 17

Submitted by Kyle Sarjeant on

The most engaging part of our second week for me was the reading on bitextual theory. I was initially apprehensive about the highly gendered rhetoric of illustration studies that the theory emerged from. I found the rigid gender roles and heteronormative signifying to be alienating, and frankly, outdated. However, I was delighted to have my apprehension alleviated and to learn that bitextuality actually subverts this tradition of gendered rhetoric by playing with these gendered categories (i.e.

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