MLA VIDES 2015

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Welcome to the third 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:

2015-04-02 10:27

Subjects:

Architecture, British history, Disability in society, English literature, History of art, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Theology

Keywords:

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

Course type:

Oxford Qualification

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Victorian Football – ‘A gentleman's game played by gentlemen’: The Demise of the Gentleman Amateur and Rise of Professional Football, With an Exploration of the Links Between the ‘Little Tin Idol’, Reverend A.H. Johnson and the OUDCE, M Freeman	The ‘Little Tin Idol’ was the original Football Association Challenge trophy (FA Cup), given to the teams that won the competition from 1872 to...	view
‘Would the Scandal Vanish with My Life’: John of Gaunt in Two Tudor Afterlives, Jessica Fure	Two artefacts produced during the Tudor era, both depicting John of Gaunt, convey a surprisingly unified tone despite the difference in date and...	view
Two Perspectives on the Execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong (1684): Tory Triumphalism and Dutch Distaste, James Drabble	This essay analyses two accounts of the execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong, which took place at Tyburn on 20 June 1684: the broadside ballad, The...	view
The Tragic Heroine as ‘cõmoditie’: Iphigeneia by Lady Jane Lumley and The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche, Trudie Messent	Lady Jane Lumley’s The Tragedie of Euripides called Iphigeneia translated out of the Greake into Englisshe refers to the mythical tragic heroine,...	view
“…they no power have, unlesse to dye”: Margaret Cavendish’s ‘Of the Shortnesse of Mans Life, and his foolish Ambition’ (1653) and Edward Collier’s Still Life with a Volume of Wither’s ‘Emblemes’ (1696), Hannah Yip	This article explores the vanity of human life as represented in a poem, ‘Of the Shortnesse of Mans Life, and his foolish Ambition’ (1653) by...	view
“…they no power have, unlesse to dye”: Margaret Cavendish’s ‘Of the Shortnesse of Mans Life, and his foolish Ambition’ (1653) and Edward Collier’s Still Life with a Volume of Wither’s ‘Emblemes’ (1696), Hannah Yip	This article explores the vanity of human life as represented in a poem, ‘Of the Shortnesse of Mans Life, and his foolish Ambition’ (1653) by...	view
The Art of Appearance: The Concept and Implications of Cosmetics in the Eighteenth Century, Alexandra Abrams	A study of an excerpt from Letters to the Ladies, on the Preservation of Health and Beauty. By a physician, (1770), and a boîte à mouches, (c....	view
Mirroring Mothers: Self-Identity and the Maternal Threat in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith, Olivia Bam	An analysis of the character Hetty Sorrel in George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith (1868) as reflections of the...	view
Women and the Indian Mutiny: Framing the Mutiny in a Punch Cartoon and a Lucknow Diary, Anna Matei	Artefacts and news coverage created in Britain during the Indian mutiny represented and interpreted that conflict, creating meaning for the public...	view
How to Write about a Queen Regnant, Leah Gilliatt	This article seeks to analyse how England’s first queen regnant was portrayed and how contemporary supporters of Mary reconciled the queen’s...	view
‘What are we to expect from women?’: Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire and Female Canvassing during the 1784 Westminster Election, Emily Sargeant	Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most celebrated political women of the eighteenth century. Her canvass for Charles Fox in the...	view
Pioneering ‘Polite’ Models of Disability in Eighteenth-Century London: Matthias Buchinger’s Self-Portrait (1724) and William Hay’s Deformity: An Essay (1754), Anne-Noëlle Pinnegar	Set against a contextual backdrop of contemporary British artists championing disability, this article explores changing attitudes to the self-...	view
Power and Identity: Indian Clubs as a Vehicle for Comprehending Material Culture, George D. Lee	People assign meaning to objects, or accept meaning provided to them by others. Using the history of Indian clubs as a vehicle, an analysis model...	view
Sacred Profanity: Decoding the Lily in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel, Julie Ann Whyman	It would be all too easy to dismiss Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s flowers as frivolous nosegays if it were not for their proliferation, compositional...	view
The Nineteenth-Century Mapping of the Himalaya by the Pundits, Robert Stanley	The route mapping of the Himalayan region during the nineteenth century involved disguised Pundits engaged in clandestine survey of the remote and...	view
‘Come and Let Us Sweetly Join’: Engaging with the Dynamics of Early Methodist Practice and its Persecution through an Examination of Two Artefacts Related to the Love-Feast, Yvonne Farley	As proto-Methodism spread and developed in the early to mid-eighteenth century the movement was challenged by excessively vituperative satire...	view
‘A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree’: Agency and Amusement in Victorian Asylums, Ute Oswald	The perception of the Victorian asylum is dominated by images of manacles, leeches and padded cells. Yet this obfuscates a very different side of...	view
Visions and Revisions: Addiction and Additions in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Carceri d’Invenzione, Alessia Pannese	Thomas De Quincey’s autobiographical account Confessions of an English Opium-Eater compares opium-induced states of mind with the imaginary...	view
Magical Materialism: The Role of Costume in the Rituals of The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn and E. Nesbit’s The Enchanted Castle, Brynne Laska	The dominance of scientific rationalism and the authority of organised religion in the Victorian era set the preconditions for dissent as the...	view
Apparitions and Appearances: Ghost Stories and Paranormal Research in the Nineteenth Century in Mary Louisa Molesworth and Ada Goodrich Freer, Muhamet Alijaj	Literature on the supernatural became very popular in Victorian society. Ghost stories became widespread and veridical literature and studies on...	view
A New Form of Expression: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographic Illustrations of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Poetry, Hannah Sothern	This article considers how the early British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron used the aesthetic language of the Pre-Raphaelites to illustrate...	view
‘Sounding of the Voice’: Interpreting the Earl of Rochester’s Epilogue to Love in the Dark through an Analysis of Matthew Locke’s Musical Score to Psyche, Thomas J. du Plessis	This article explores the Earl of Rochester’s Epilogue to Love in the Dark through the music drama Psyche by Thomas Shadwell set to music by...	view
Stealing Soldiers’ Hearts: Appropriating Henry V and Marching Shakespeare’s Boys off to The Great War, Paul Brown	This essay examines a Memorial Stained Glass Window from World War I that depicts Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V at Prayer’ before the battle of Agincourt...	view
Dionysus in Marble and on Paper: Looking at the Culture of Collecting and Changing Practices in Conservation, Catharine O’Shaughnessy	During the eighteenth-century, many aristocrats collected ancient stone sculptures from Italy and Greece, for installation in their grand...	view
Theatricality and Restoration: the Re-construction of Royalty, Jackie Colburn	The two artefacts under discussion in this article are the fourth Triumphal Arch, constructed in London for the coronation of Charles II in 1661,...	view
‘A Kind of Silent Rhetoric’: the Significance of the Worthies of Chillingham Castle, Anna Brunton	This paper examines the political, cultural, and religious context of the Jacobean statues of the Worthies of Chillingham castle. This is...	view

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