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25 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

III. Transmedia Victoria

Neo-Victorianism: the Victorians “in the rearview mirror” (Joyce 2007).  The issue of the postcolonial defacing of Queen Victoria’s statues. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights – who is Heathcliff? The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 (the character of Heathcliff as partially modelled on Thomas Anson, a runaway slave). The relevance of Liverpool as England’s largest slave-trading port. The case of the Indian lascars.

Readings:

•Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights •Heywood, Christopher. 1987. “Yorkshire Slavery in Wuthering Heights.” RES New Series XXXVIII(150): 184-198.

This class meeting was held online via Colibri-Zoom.

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23 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

III. Transmedia Victoria

Reading Thomas Babington Macaulay’s 1853 “Minute on Education.” Macaulay’s idea of “interpreters”.

Readings: Macaulay, Thomas Babington. 1853.“Minute on Education”.  Indian Musalmáns. Ed. Nassau Lees. London: Williams and  Norgate. 87-102.

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18 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

III. Transmedia Victoria

Watching Victoria & Abdul, a film directed by Stephen Frears in 2017, the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, based on a book by Shrabani Basu which details Queen Victoria’s relationship with her Indian munshi (teacher). Debating the racial and religious border crossings in Frears’s film.

Readings: Plunkett, John. 2003. Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 150-155.

This class meeting was held online via Colibri-Zoom.

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16 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Setting up the synchronous activities (when the class will gather at the same time and interact in “real time” via Colibri-Zoom) and asynchronous activities for the upcoming weeks (course materials – PowerPoint presentations and/or videos to complement the scheduled readings – will be uploaded into our shared Dropbox folder in advance of our virtual meeting). This class meeting was held online via Colibri-Zoom.

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11 Março 2020, 16:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Guest lecture by Professor Diana Marques – abstract: ”In this class we will explore the concept of Medievalism that originated in the 19th century England, taking into account its expression in British literature and culture. We will contextualize this renewed interest about the Middle Ages in Victorian England, why did it arise and how it still impacts contemporary views on the medieval period in various media, like literature, cinema, and tv series. The following themes will be addressed: the impact of the Industrial revolution and the rise of Romanticism that looked to the Middle Ages as a Golden Era; the emergence of Medieval Studies and the (re)discovery of medieval texts; the Arthurian Revival; the Pre-Raphaelites; Medievalism in the 20th and 21st centuries.”

Readings: Pugh, Tison and Jane Weisl. 2013. Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present. London: Routledge. 1-11.

This class was cancelled due to the containment measures motivated by the epidemic caused by COVID-19.