The goal for these readings and discussions is to look at how the culture of the time shaped the writing and how similar our fears are to the readers of the 19th century.
Expectations:
- Visual aid (powerpoint, prezi, handout)
- Background on the time/author/writing style
- Thoughtful questions for a good discussion
- Close reading/thoughtful consideration of the text
As an audience member, your job is to pay attention, and to participate in the discussion. Throughout the semester, you will need to collect 150 points.
For the lecture part of the presentation, here are some ideas to research and connect with the text or original audience:
- Mummy Unwrapping Party
- Egyptian Craze/Excavations
- Seances/Mediums
- Spirit Photography
- Slavery and Ethnographic Displays
- Race
- Medical Uses of Electricity
- Insane Asylums
- Victorian Understanding of Germs
- Evolution
- Taxidermy
- Orientalism
- Opium Dens
- White Chapel Area
- Religion
- Doctors (Medical Profession)
- Grave Robbers
- Freaks
- Charles Stratton
- Sarah Baartman
- Julia Pastrana
- Joseph Merrick
- Size (fat women, skeleton men, giants, little people)
- Tattooed people
- Hoaxes
- Fairytales
- Fairy Hoax
- Popular authors/texts
- Romantic Period
- Gothic Genre
- Museums and Increased Scientific Study
- Execution
- Cult of the Artist/Artist as a Celebrity
- Phrenology
- Photography Advances
- Crime/Justice System
- Trade and Travel
- Food
- Gender (Spheres)
- Madame Tussauds!
- Invention and Ingenuity
- Funerals/Mourning Practices
- Parks/Graveyard/Forests
- Railway
- Eugenitics
- Reformes
- Taxes
- Victoria's Reign
- More details on anything listed in the power point
- Snake Oil Cures
- Theater
- Illness
- Phossy Jaw
- Small Pox
- TB
- Potter's Rot
- Nursing (Florence Nightingale)
- America
- War
- Beauty
Ways to collect points:
+ 5--say something relevant during the discussion
+ 5--if your comment includes a quote
+ 5--have your book or e-text open during the discussion
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