Author Archives: Ciara Foldenauer
What’s the relationship between sociological content and aesthetic form?
The speechlessness of our roundtable speakers after the mediator introduced the debate permeated the auditorium. Throwing around terms like “terror state” of “uber totalitarianism,” which we face with “little chance for intervention,” the topic at hand generated an awkward, dumbfounded … Continue reading
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Tagged aethetics, roundtable, The Way the World Sees US, U.S., US
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“Their Mutual Life”: Lydgate’s Double Consciousness and complicated ‘nodes’ of the web
Hi all! In chapters 64-67 of Middlemarch, George Eliot portrays the strain of debt on Lydgate and Rosamond’s married life. I would like to examine the connection between these two ‘nodes’ by noting Eliot’s diction and the way she constructs … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, Eliot, George Eliot, Lydgate, marcocosm, marriage, marriage plot, microcosm, Middlemarch, node, nodes, Rosamond, Rosamond and Lydgate, web
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The Viewer and the Viewed: Lydgate’s Male Gaze
Towards the end of our assigned reading, Rosamond and the young promising doctor Lydgate encounter each other and converse. I couldn’t help but notice Eliot’s focus (pun intended) on lenses, sight and photographic explanations of the inner-workings of the characters’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Eliot, George Eliot, Lydgate, male gaze, Middlemarch, objectify, Rosamond, surveillance, view, viewer
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Browning and Brontë: Personifications of Wind
Hi everyone! I want to direct my blog post towards two of the poems we’re reading for tomorrow, Porphyria’s Lover by Browning and The Night-Wind by Brontë. Both poems begin with an omniscient narrator who is listening to the wind … Continue reading
Mexican ‘ape woman’ put on display in Victorian Europe buried in homeland after 150 years
Hey all! As you know, many indigenous people throught the west were taken from their homes and paraded around Victorian Europe. In the 1850’s and 1860’s, the “Ape Woman” or “Bearded Lady” was known by many people as a circus … Continue reading
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Tagged Imperialism, Moonstone, Queen Victoria, The Moonstone, Victorian history, Victorian values
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