MLA VIDES 2016

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Welcome to the forth 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.

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2016-07-04 10:56

Subjects:

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

Keywords:

History, Material Culture, Literature, Early Modern Philosophy

Course type:

Oxford Qualification

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A Prospect and a Description: The Pleasures of the Imagination in Eighteenth Century Naples, Lesley Murphy	To the eighteenth century traveller, a visit to Naples meant an encounter with Nature and Antiquity that necessitated an aesthetic as well as an...	view
‘A Right Royal Tamasha’: Imaging Queen Victoria as Kaiser-i- Hind, Malvina Pollock Kalim	This article examines the elevation of Queen Victoria to Empress of India through the prism of John Tenniel’s satirical cartoon ‘New Crowns for...	view
Edouard Manet and George Meredith: Two Interpretations of ‘The Heroic in History’, Hannes Frey	The American Civil War challenged the political imagination of Victorian elites. Abolition emerged as a primary concern, yet other issues...	view
Examining the Language of Science in the Prose of William Harvey and the Poetry of Margaret Cavendish, Mintra Tantikijrungruang	This interdisciplinary paper crosses a study of science with a study of literature. It will examine the language of science in a work of...	view
Improving Vision: The Moral Focus of the Sense of Sight in Seventeenth-Century Text and Textile, Jean Lambert	In early modern culture, the eye was widely deemed to be the pre-eminent organ of the sensorium on account of its contribution to the intellectual...	view
Investigating Personal Character: Sir John Barnard – A Portrait and A Present for an Apprentice, Harold Pearce	The most highly influential business book of the twentieth-century was based upon the learning from over 200 years of success literature and was...	view
King Edward VI and the Pope and Elizabeth I: Drawing Parallels in Tudor Group Portraits and Texts, Chelsea Swales	For over fifty years, ‘King Edward VI and the Pope or An Allegory of the Reformation under Edward VI’ has posed a mystery. The anonymous painting...	view
On the Eve of Famine: Two Ideals of Irish Nationhood in 1842, Siobhan Frances Fallon	This article reflects on views of Irish nationhood. By the early 1840s, the effects of Union with Britain had generated in Ireland a desire for...	view
Picturing the Future: The Feminist Orientation of Portraiture in The Ebony Frame and an Example of Victorian Spirit Art, Cathy Jewison	As a visible expression of Victorian culture, portraiture reflected the many and varied interests of the era, including a preoccupation with death...	view
Private Spaces for Public Consumption: Female Privacy as Erotic Satire in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture, Ruby Rutter	Female privacy in eighteenth-century British print culture was often represented as facilitating salacious and debauched behaviour. The...	view
Protesting Peterloo: The ‘Fanciful’ and the ‘Domestic’, Helen Leach	This essay will explore two artefacts produced in response to the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Masque of Anarchy and John...	view
Symbols of Behaviour in mid-17th Century English Coffee Houses, Scott Shriner	Coffee drinking became popularized in England during the dawning of the Commonwealth period and into mid-18th century. The interest in this...	view
That-Which-Remains: A Phenomenological Reading of Two Eighteenth Century Texts on Death, Simon Demetriou	This article compares an eighteenth century treatise calling for the banning of church burial with a funeral sermon from the same period in...	view
The Age of Nature: Tracing the influence of Émile on the representation of boyhood in The Brummell Children and the opening chapters of Tom Brown’s Schooldays, Mark Grogan	No summary can do justice to the diversity of formative experience available in the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century to the children of...	view
The Angel in the House and Fallen Women: Assigning Women their Places in Victorian Society, Sarah Kuhl	This article juxtaposes Coventry Patmore’s poem ‘The Angel in the House’ and William Holman Hunt’s painting ‘The Awakening Conscience’, examining...	view
The Female Artist in the mid-Victorian Period: Emily Mary Osborn’s Nameless and Friendless (1857) and the 1859 Petition to the Royal Academy, Adrienne McKenna	The 1857 painting by Emily Mary Osborn titled ‘Nameless and Friendless’ and the 1859 petition to the Royal Academy to provide tuition to female...	view
The Journey from the Veil to the Tassel: The Progression of Female Higher Education in Britain with a Focus on Medical Education and the Influence of India During the Late Nineteenth Century, Noor-e Islam	This article will discuss a poem written by Krishnabhabini Das, first published in Calcutta in 1885. The poem selected reveals a desperately...	view
The Understanding of Time in the Nineteenth Century: Big Ben and the Procedural Reforms Adopted by Parliament, Caroline Leclerc	Whilst the first clocks date back to the end of the Middle Ages, the understanding of time transformed society in the nineteenth century. The...	view
William Ewart Gladstone in Two Perspectives: John Everett Millais’ Private Portrait and John Tenniel’s Public Political Cartoons, Ian M Williams	Three pieces of work by John Tenniel in the genre of political cartoons, and a John Everett Millais oil-oncanvas portrait commissioned by Christ...	view
‘Worthy of Eve before the Fall’: Representations of Palmyra in Eighteenth Century Britain, Elisabeth Grass	‘The Ruins of Palmyra’ (1753) was the first of a new genre of architectural publication which appeared in the mid-eighteenth century, applying...	view
Pomp and Privation in Victorian India, Kapil Komireddi	This essay examines British colonial rule in late nineteenth-century India through the lens of two contemporaneous artefacts. Each vivifies a...	view

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