A screen shot from today's class ... in order to make the best of screen-sharing on Zoom, all the participants other than the presenter are hidden, alas, so this is a poor simulacrum in various ways of our classroom. Today's penultimate session in "Victorian Visual Culture" was devoted to presentations on contemporary visual re-interpretations of the Victorian - from BBC TV's The Paradise - Zola transposed to northern England - to enthusiasm for collecting large houseplants to Victorian themed board-games to Ben Cauchi's ambrotypes and tintypes to Yinka Shonibare CBE: any one of them would have been material enough for a whole class, let alone trying to squeeze ten people into three hours.
But this was irresistible to share. Who ever knew there was such a thing as a Dickens Village Series? (and if you knew, is that knowledge that you're glad to have? There was an intriguing sub-theme running through today's session that we didn't really have time to discuss - that there's a very American version of what constitutes the [English] Victorian that somehow isn't all that recognizable as a homegrown English style). I think this must, pretty much, be Fanny Cornforth modeling for Bocca Baciata. Whoever was responsible for this is maybe one answer to "what use is a course in Victorian visual culture"?
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