Showing posts with label Tutorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tutorial. Show all posts
Monday, 31 October 2011
Popular Millenarnanism 1780-1850
The focus of this blogpost is J. F. C. Harrisson's book The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism 1780-1850. For those of you not familliar with Millenarnianism I will first start out with a short explanation of what it entails.
Millenarianism, as the name already makes clear, is the belief in the resurrection of Christ and the coming of the new Millenium on earth. According to the bible, Christ would return to earth and would resurrect the dead. There was quite some debate if this resurrection of the dead would take place before or after the establishment of the new millenium; the 1000 years within which man lived together with Christ on the earth. During those 1000 years the sinners (be it those who had not yet died before the second coming or those who were resurrected from the dead) would be punished for their sins, whereas the true believers would remain unharmed as they would receive the seal of Christ as proof of their loyalty. At the end of the millenium heaven and earth would be destroyed and a new earth and heaven would be created. The Final Judgment would then take place; the sinners would be doomed to live in Ghenna (hell) and the saved would go to a new heaven, which was known as the New Jerusalem.
Sunday, 23 October 2011
Hell and the Victorians
As promised, another blog entry about the material that I need to read for my tutorial. The subject of this post is Geoffrey Rowell's book Hell and the Victorians and will deal with the different views on hell as well as eschatology in the Victorian era.
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Heaven, hell and the Victorians
As I wrote in one of my previous post, I am supposed to write critical analysis and/or summary's of the books that I read for my tutorial. Since I know that some people who follow this blog are interested in the Victorian Era, I thought it might be a good idea to share my summaries/ analyses with them. Hopefully, they can be of some use to someone out there.
The summary's are very short and therefore incomplete, but it might just provide people with enough information so they knew whether or not they should read the book.
My first summary is on Heaven, Hell and the Victorians by Michael Wheeler.
Monday, 26 September 2011
Tutorial: change of plans! :D
Dear reader,
First of all, I apologize for the lack of blog posts. I have been insanely busy lately and I have just recovered from the flu. It does not really seem like there is going to be an end to all the things that I need to do any time soon though T_T... However, I will try to post as often as I can.
The subject of the post is a change in the tutorial that I blogged about some time ago. I had my first meeting with my teacher after summer break last week and he gave me two options: (1) I could continue with the reading list I had created.... or (2) I could start to narrow it down and work towards an article and strive to get it published. Well, obviously I went for the second choice! :D I am so excited! He said that I could of course also give a paper at a conference before getting the article published... so I might get that experience as well.
Monday, 27 June 2011
My tutorial and personal website
Coming semester I will be doing another tutorial. This time, however, the teacher gave me card blanch to compile my own reading list! The entire tutorial will be focussed on the topic of Victorian death and mourning. Perhaps not the most cheerful topic, but definitely a facinating one. Basically this tutorial will enable me to make literaty mileage. This is one of the reasons that I will already be starting with the reading next week. I will be doing my MA thesis on this topic, so this is definitely a good way to make a start... Plus I am getting points for reading books that I would have had to read in preparation for my thesis anyway. So it is def. a win-win situation.
Reading list:
Secondary literature:
Death in the Victorian family by Pat Jalland
The Oxford Book of Death, ed. D. J. Enright.
Poetry of Mourning: the Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney by Jahan Ramazani
Heaven, hell and the Victorians by Michael Wheeler
Literary remains: representation of death and burial in Victorian England by Mary Hotz
Murder and moral decay in Victorian popular literature by Beth Kalikoff
Death, grief and poverty in Britain, 1870-1914 by Julie-Mary Strange
Primary literature:
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
East Lynne by Henry Wood
The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte May Young
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Some of the stories of Sherlock Holmes.
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot.
Victorian detective stories: An Oxford Anthology by ed. Michael Cox.
Also, I now have my very own website! http://www.marjoleinplatjee.com/ One of my teachers said it would be advisable if you wish to persue a carreer in academics. The site functions as an academic portfolio so you won't find a lot of info on there.
Well that is it for now... Just gonna wait for the train to go again lol.
Love,
Blacky
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