Category Archives: Victorianism

The Experience of Reading Poetry Part 2: “vex one like dronings of the shuttles at task”

Posted on March 9, 2017 by quicklytothepanopticon

In my last post I discussed Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Lady Lilith” and how the experience of reading the lines actually mirrors the poem’s content. Another excellent example of a poet using the form, in this case repetition and specific diction, … Continue reading →

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“soft sleep shall snare”: caught up in the language of poetry

Posted on March 7, 2017 by quicklytothepanopticon

One of my courses this semester is knee-deep in Victorian poetry. One way that I’ve been trying to dig in with my students as they try and tackle what is often very difficult work, is to focus the actual experience … Continue reading →

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“in your sphere”

Posted on December 31, 2016 by quicklytothepanopticon

By Chapman & Hall – Heritage Auction Galleries, Public Domain, Link Had Trotty dreamed?  Or, are his joys and sorrows, and the actors in them, but a dream; himself a dream; the teller of this tale a dreamer, waking but … Continue reading →

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CFPs with upcoming deadlines

Posted on September 21, 2013 by quicklytothepanopticon

A couple of interesting CFPs with upcoming deadlines: The 35th Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts- “Fantastic Empires” From space operas to medieval tales to seminal works of fantasy, imaginative fiction abounds in fabulous empires. ICFA 35 … Continue reading →

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Remember, remember . . .

Posted on November 5, 2012 by quicklytothepanopticon

John Constable, A View of Hampstead Heath , with Figures Around a Bonfire The first tall flame from Rainbarrow sprang into the sky, attracting all eyes that had been fixed on the distant conflagrations back to their own attempt in … Continue reading →

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“He speaks like a drunken man”

Posted on July 25, 2012 by quicklytothepanopticon

The title of this entry comes from Oscar Wilde’s Salome. It is a line spoken by Herodias directed at Iokanaan, or John the Baptist. It is an important line, for it captures the hysteric, maddening quality of utterance in the … Continue reading →

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Why I teach and study Victorian literature

Posted on July 17, 2012 by quicklytothepanopticon

My students think they know Victorian literature. They have impressions of it as dull, as overly concerned with decorum, as fantasias of the upper-classes in elegantly appointed drawing rooms drinking tea and eating cucumber sandwiches. Few of my students who … Continue reading →

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“Luminous as an autumn sunset”

Posted on July 3, 2012 by quicklytothepanopticon

I’ve been steadily making my way through my dissertation and I hope to have it in draft by the end of the summer. I’ve got over half of my chapters in approved final form (or as final as they can … Continue reading →

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Queen Victoria in the Digital Age

Posted on June 11, 2012 by quicklytothepanopticon

Recently, the Bodlein Library and the British Royal Archives published digital copies of Queen Victoria’s Journals in their entirety. Some 40,000 journal pages from several different transcribed sources are available to view as high-quality photos. They are in the process … Continue reading →

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Jekyll, Hyde, and the secret everyone knows

Posted on November 13, 2011 by quicklytothepanopticon

I am teaching The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this week. My students all know Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Or rather, they know the main conceit: that Hyde is Jekyll. Most of my students have never … Continue reading →

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