MLA VIDES 2014

Welcome to the Second edition of VIDES, the online journal produced by the students of the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, as part of their Master’s degree in Literature and Arts. As the name of the degree suggests, the course covers many different academic fields alongside literature: philosophy, history, material culture, history of art, theology and architecture. The journal features essays that combine these disciplines, enlightening understanding in one field through study of another.

Date created:

2014-04-03 14:09

Subjects:

Architecture, British history, English literature, History of art, Philosophy, Theology

Keywords:

History, Material Culture, Literature, Theology, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Art

Course type:

Oxford Qualification

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From Avalon To Paddington Station: William Dyce And The Victorian Reinterpretation Of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, Tom Poynor	In 1851 the painter William Dyce (1806-1864) unveiled his painting Religion: The Vision of Sir Galahad and his Company in the Queen's...	view
Reason and Faith in John Henry Newman's Sermons and Poetry, Elizabeth Li	Throughout his writings, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was especially occupied by the relationship between reason and faith. Issues of faith and...	view
The Marks Of Monitory Memory: An Analysis Of The Shepheard Buss Rebus In Light Of The Moral Agenda Of Claude Paradin’s Heroicall Devices, J. R. Rallens	A preoccupation with virtue was embodied in many literary and aesthetic forms in early modern England, including the popular genre of emblem books...	view
The Creator And The Created In Victorian Society: Exploring The Importance Of A Perception Of Moral Consistency Between The Two,Virginia Henley	This is a reflection on connections between a passage taken from the novel, Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy (1895),1 and a section of a stained...	view
Living In Its Shadow: Worcester Cathedral And Ellen Wood’s The Channings, Candice Pearson	This article explores the architecture and history of Worcester Cathedral and the novel it inspired, Ellen Wood’s The Channings (1862)....	view
Remembering The Railway: Locating Nostalgia In Wordsworth's 'Suggested By The Proposed Kendal And Windermere Railway' And The Creation Of The Musée D'orsay, Rachael Curzons	Although not immediately apparent, the relationship between a sonnet written by the Poet Laureate at Rydal Mount, England, and a train station...	view
Proof And Possession: A Conversation About Knowledge-Making Between Two Artefacts From The 1740s, Tyson D. Rallens	When considering the intellectual achievements of the past, the means by which knowledge was obtained - or created - deserve specific study apart...	view
‘We Must Do This Well If We Do It At All’: Reports On The First Women’s College, Girton, Cambridge, Susanna Cerasuolo	This article examines two artefacts associated with the founding of the first women’s college, Girton College, Cambridge (1869). The first is a...	view
Representing Equality: A Comparative Study Of How The New Hospital For Women And Punch Cartoon, ‘Our Pretty Doctor’ Depicted The Acceptance Of The First Female Doctors In Britain, Alexander Goldsmith	‘Our Pretty Doctor’ appeared in Punch on August 1870, following Elizabeth Garrett Anderson’s appointment as a visiting physician to the East...	view
The Juxtaposition Of The Disposition Of Interior Spaces And Social Strata In The 18th Century: An Examination Of Pride And Prejudice And Mansfield Park, Noble Po Kan Lo	In Austen’s novels, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, there are three houses: Pemberley House, Mansfield Park and Sotherton Court. They are...	view
Skeletons From The Johnson Closet: Comparing An Anti-Vaccination Handbill With Earlier Images Of Death, Kenneth Gray	This article examines interesting correspondences between two items collected by John Johnson: a 19th century handbill protesting compulsory...	view
Empire And Its Discontents: An Examination Of Kilmainham Gaol And Aapravasi Ghat, Robert Deba	Despite being separated by over 6,339 miles, Kilmainham Gaol and Aapravsai Ghat are inextricably linked as artefacts documenting the legacy of the...	view
Corporal Or Psychological Punishment? A Comparison Between Newgate Prison As Described In Contemporary Images And In Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders And Jeremy Bentham’s Model For The Panopticon, Maria-Gloria Simpson	This article deals with the effects that the material shape of a prison and its system of punishment may have on offenders and touches on the role...	view
'Shades Of Meaning': The Significance Of Hair Colour In Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862) And Rossetti's Lady Lilith (1866–68, Altered 1872–73), Jessica Lenihan	In a culture obsessed with physiognomy, where the Victorian female body was a canvas of symbols to be read, the portrayal of hair – and...	view
Mirrors Of The Soul: Reflections Of Sexual Identity In Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Hand And Soul’ And Woman Combing Her Hair, Travis Piper	As an artist and man Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) was mesmerized by women, focusing consistently on female images and identity throughout...	view
Between The Spheres: Breaking The Boundary Between Private And Public Spheres In Wilkie Collins’s The Woman In White And William Holman Hunt’s The Lady Of Shalott, Alison Westwood	The nineteenth-century notion of a public sphere for male-authored content and a private sphere for female-authored content made the female diary...	view
The Development Of The Dinner Suit And Depictions Of Formalwear In William Quiller Orchardson’s Mariage De Convenance, George Taylor	Scottish Artist William Quiller Orchardson (1832-1910) depicted numerous high-society scenes, and clothing is a central feature of these works....	view
Pockets Of Identity: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Pockets In Lady Audley’s Secret And A Fashion Plate From The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, Deirdre A. Duffy	Copious nineteenth-century novels feature women’s fashion as more than passing references or descriptive details for the sake of imagery. In fact...	view
Political Meteorology: An Enquiry Into The Ability Of By-Elections To Forecast The Outcome Of The Subsequent General Election During The Period From The Third Reform Act To The Great War 1885-1910 Or Anecdote Not Data, Ralph Collins Walter	This paper examines the value of by-elections as predictors of the next general election during the period from the third reform act to the...	view
Remembering King Charles I: History, Art And Polemics From The Restoration To The Reform Act, T. J. Allen	The term Restoration can be used simply to refer to the restored monarchy under Charles II, following the Commonwealth period. But it can also be...	view
The English Tea-Table: The Domestic Feminisation Of An Exotic Commodity, From The Arrival Of Tea In England circa 1660 To 1760, Maggie Henderson-Tew	‘Along with air and water, tea is the most widely-consumed substance on the planet.’1 This rather startling statement underlines the position of...	view
The End Of Wooden Walls: A Comparison Of HMS Warrior (1861) To The USS Monitor (1862), David L. Hirsch	In this article I will compare and contrast two warships, the British HMS Warrior and the American Union’s USS Monitor. These ships were the early...	view
The Myth Of The Black Knight: Subverting The Image Of Count Gondomar In Early Modern England, Ernesto Oyarbide Magaña	This article centres its attention on the propaganda produced after the failure of the Spanish Match: the marriage negotiations between Spain and...	view
Imagology And Iomarbhá: Representation And Contention In Early Modern Ireland, Donal Murphy	This paper examines John Derricke’s The Image of Irelande with A Discouerie of Woodkarne and Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present...	view

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