Bath is a curious tourist attraction because its historical significance is as a tourist attraction. Relatively wealthy people in the modern world travel to Bath to find out what it is was like for relatively wealthy people in the 18th or 19th (or 1st!) century to travel to Bath. I’d like you to be an […]
What is it like to be a mudlark for an hour? What did you find? How do you think the experience would have been different in 1850? The brief Wikipedia article on mudlarks is worth checking out.
Freud’s House is full of objects that he has collected. What kind of images does he seem to prefer? Which one catches your eye in relation to “The Uncanny”? More images of his Study . . .
“Lot No. 249” The Egyptian mummy easily tosses the English Gentleman into the Thames (or, perhaps, the Cherwell). See the text of the story here: Lot No. 249
In De Profundis, which Wilde wrote in jail toward the end of his life, he writes, “the two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent me to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.” Presumably the latter was a much different sort of turning point than the former. Indeed, Wilde generally associated Oxford […]
Hard to beat Bella Lugosi’s Dracula from the 1831 film. The images from that adaptation (see Texts page) certainly capture some of the sexual energy and anxiety that Stoker develops throughout the text, sometimes in passages so explicit that it seems impossible Victorian readers would not have understood the symbolic connections between different varieties of penetration. […]