Visual Aids
This page provides access to a variety of interesting visual aids to enhance and deepen your reading of the texts for our class. I hope these paintings, photographs, manuscripts and maps will help the periods and authors come to life for you. These links will open in a new page; close it to return to this one.
Paintings
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A list of Victorian painters, with information on and works by each of them (from the Victorian Web)
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Examples of the Tate Gallery's displays from the Romantic, Victorian and Modernist periods we will study include Blake at Work, Making British History, British Art and Asia, Marine Painting, Visions of the Apocalypse, Art and Victorian Society and Modern Figures—this site offers helpful explanations and analysis for the sample paintings
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Sites about and featuring the works of William Blake, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeil Whistler,
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A site with information and many paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite artists, and another with links to Pre-Raphaelite web sites
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Samples of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings
Photographs
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A well presented collection of Victorian photographic visiting cards
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Examples of Victorian photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron
Manuscripts
Scanned from images in the British Library collection, and published in Chris Fletcher's book, 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts. These images are intended only for viewing by my students, which should fall under "fair use" provisions of copyright law.
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William Blake (a page from Blake's notebook, with drafts of several poems including "The Tyger," "London" and "To Nobodaddy")
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William Wordsworth (a copy of "November 1806")
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a draft of "Kubla Khan")
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John Keats (the opening page of the draft of "Hyperion")
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (the opening of "The Mask of Anarchy")
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Mary Shelley (a poem on the death of her husband: "Ah! he is gone—and I alone")
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George Gordon, Lord Byron (the draft of "Love and Death")
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Elizabeth Barret Browning (the draft of "How do I love thee?Let me count the ways" from Sonnets from the Portugese)
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Robert Browning (the first page of The Ring and the Book)
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Emily Brontë (a manuscript page from the "Gondal Poems")
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Charles Dickens (a portion from the draft of Chapter 15 of Nicholas Nickleby)
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (a sheet with both a fair copy and a draft from Maud)
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Lewis Carroll (a page from Alice in Wonderland, with Carroll's original illustration)
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Christina Rossetti (a valentine poem Rossetti sent to her mother in 1884)
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Thomas Hardy (a heavily revised page from the draft of Tess of the D'Urbervilles)
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Oscar Wilde (from an early draft of The Importance of Being Earnest)
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Wilfred Owen (the first draft of "Anthem for Doomed Youth")
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Virginia Woolf (from a draft of Mrs. Dalloway— in purple ink)
Maps
Although our textbook includes some maps, there are many others available on the web to help you get your bearings and visualize the world of our authors. Comparing maps can emphasize the profound changes occurring during this period.
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London from 1827, 1859, 1862, and 1899, as well as Charles Booth's 1888-1889 poverty map of London showing where the rich and poor lived (click on these maps to zoom in to more and more detailed views)
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London and the surrounding area in 1819.
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Maps showing the expansion of the British empire, the empire in 1897, and details on the empire at its height.
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An archive of old maps of towns and sites in England
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Maps contrasting England's population density before the Industrial Revolution (1701) and after (1911)