A collection of curated Sensational Objects from the Victorian era
Image: James Duffield Harding, The Great Exhibition of 1851 Please note that this list is meant to inspire rather than to prescribe. You are free and encouraged to work outside the boundaries of this list if you wish. Come talk to me if you are …
Image above: Grand Panorama (Concluded) of the Great Exhibition from The Illustrated London News. Image scan by Philip Allingham. The Victorian Web. Assignment Description Want to read the assignment sheet as a Google Doc? You can access it here. This is a research assignment with a twist. Your …
Image Above: “Gertrude in the Wilderness” by George du Maurier. Wood-engraving by Joseph Swain. Charles Warren Adams’s The Notting Hill Mystery, in Once a Week 7 (29 November 1862): 617. Scanned by Simon Cooke. Victorian Web. Research Resources Victorian Web – A comprehensive resource created by George Landow at …
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Present – you want to inform your audience of something about your chosen object/event. Bring it to life for us. Illuminate its significance within its cultural/historical context. Translate it for your audience. Curate – you want to demonstrate attention to and care for your object …
Guidelines: It must be Victorian (1930s-1901, British Empire). It must be something that you can connect to the idea of Sensation, in any of the term’s expansive and multiple meanings. It must be something you can research within the time permitted (e.g. if it’s an …