I don’t know much about steampunk culture, but I really loved this novel. I feel that this book captures the unique heart and spirit of the Victorian age, “imaginative” science, while simultaneously being a somewhat critical commentary on the gender…
I knew relatively little about Steampunk and Neo-Victorian subcultures. I’m a little familiar with the related gothic Lolita Japanese clothing style but only because I had to do a project on it for an anthropology course. From what I understand,…
Despite its problematic understanding of race and gender, I really liked this film. I was very impressed with the sense of background and foreground in the film. There was a mixture of built sets and paintings. They’re fairly seamless. I’m…
There are so many things to touch upon from this really rich and detailed reading. I decided to focus on a few aspects that I particularly identified with. I am very to discuss this more and to elaborate on any…
Hello Honors students, The post on The Victorians, Chapters 6-8 was due last night. This week we finish reading Levine’s Arabella of Mars, and we also watch A Trip to the Moon. The film is short, and we don’t have…
Ganges outlines three explanations for the religious transformations of the Victorian Era. There first are “supply side accounts” from the Church, attempting to explain whether or not they were able to keep up with the changes that were happening in…
Looking Backwards is about wealthy Bostonian Julian West traveling forward in time from the 1800s to 2000 after taking some insomnia medication in an isolation chamber that later protects him from a house fire. In his literal past life he…
Morris’s book is a work of fiction, but his detailed characters and settings made me forget at moments that his story operates within the frame of a dream. I really thought at moments that his Utopia was real. William Morris’s…
My classmate, K. Scott, wrote a really wonderful summary describing the origins of each of the characters that I would like to build upon. I would like to highlight something in particular that I discovered while watching the movie on…
My apologies if my error caused any concern. The idea was to have two weeks for each book, but that was not supposed to include the break. SO: The film was due last Sunday, but Bellamy or Morris are due…
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