Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0003
Megan Lewis
This article considers an 1850 publication of the children’s nursery rhyme “The Death and Burial of Cock Robin” and accompanying illustrations by Harrison Weir. The publication serves as educational material, guiding Victorian children through the process of losing a loved one while providing a window into preservation culture in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Weir’s illustrations, reflecting popular taxidermy tableaux, nuance this pedagogical project by drawing on the growing naturalist preoccupation of the nineteenth century and attendant preservation culture. The preservation and commodification of animal bodies was also closely tied to education for both children and adults, as they provided windows into other experiences of an ever-widening world. Unlike other depictions of the rhyme, Weir’s unique illustrations focus on animals in nature rather than as material for human drama. This emphasis reflects the period’s shifting attitudes toward the natural world in light of industrialization. Children’s fluency with the natural world was beginning to experience fissures. Thus, the Cock Robin nursery rhyme served as an education in both burial roles and seeing, recognizing, and naming the natural world. Its reflection of commodification culture, however, makes it a poor educational tool today, even while our need for such material continues to grow.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0258
L. Shires
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0250
J. Fuller
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0001
Maria K. Bachman, Albert D. Pionke
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0166
M. Celeste
This article explores a network-forward approach to teaching Charles Dickens’s last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend. As it outlines heuristics for visualizing multiplot novels, the article also analyzes the feedback loop between novels and networks: i.e., how our understanding of one form (be it literary or sociopolitical) shapes our understanding of the other. For a case study, the author presents his experience teaching Our Mutual Friend in a recent 300-level literature class. Every Friday for ten weeks, his students read two parts of the novel’s twenty serial numbers and, using concept mapping software, created a sociogram—a visual representation of social connections. The result was an ever-evolving visualization not just of Dickens’s diffuse, multiplot novel but also of each student’s individual experience navigating distributed textual networks, reading multiplexity, and understanding mutuality. This article showcases the work of five students in order to exemplify some key concepts, issues, and conversations not only about networks but also about teaching. The serial sociogram activity raises productive questions about student engagement, equitable pedagogical practices, and the mutual relationship between teaching and research.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0210
A. Gibson, A. Grener, F. Goodenough, Scott Bailey
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0086
J. Sample
This article explores satire and comicality in written and visual representations of China using a metaphor introduced by Jonathan Spence in The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds (1998). Spence labels Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese “sightings.” Spence identified sightings in travel journals, stage plays, short stories, and philosophical tracts, but he did not explore depictions of China in graphic satires and related news reports even though they are rich sources of popular attitudes and unique opportunities to gauge the presence of China in Western minds. The first part of this essay uses the concept of sightings to compare similar visual satires on China in the news by James Gillray (1792) and John Leech (1842). The engraving and penciling, respectively, present opposing visions of the British and the Chinese at very different moments in Anglo-Chinese relations. The second part situates the penciling within the emerging written and visual comic rhetoric of things Chinese. There is great value in down-market popular productions as sources for understanding the complexity of the presence of things Chinese in the British consciousness at the dawn of the Victorian era and throughout the nineteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0198
D. Felluga
This articles asks if the principles of open source and open access are sufficient to safeguard our intellectual labor and to guard against the predatory logic of a world dominated by capitalist systems of production and dissemination. Both open source and open access face a similar problem, as it happens: neglect and obsolescence, as well as the most pernicious Achilles’ heel of the vast majority of digital humanities initiatives: long-term sustainability. COVE offers an alternative to both long-term sustainability and the collective sharing of content.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0055
Scott Rogers
Tennyson’s In Memoriam has often been read as a text associated with the Victorian “crisis of faith.” This essay argues that Tennyson’s poem actually takes part in a crisis of epistemology in the wake of the transition from deductive to inductive science.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/victinstj.49.2022.0238
R. Crisp
Recently acquired by the Mill Library at Somerville College, Oxford, these ten letters by John Stuart Mill provide insight into various aspects of Mill’s life, including penal reform, feminism, editorial work, the East India Company, the Jamaica question, and his views on religion.
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