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Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion, eds. Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. 200th Birthday Edition.
Full text linkLight in the Piazza
No full textFeatured here is a rendering of Signora Naccarelli during Act 1 scene 6. She is wearing a custom-built three-quarter length sleeve, below the knee dress. It has white details on the sleeve, collar, and bow at the neck. This dress is more reserved than most of the other costumes in the show, to show a modesty and also a steadiness in Signora’s looks. She is one of the most grounded characters, so I designed her costumes to reflect how stable and steadfast she is.https://ir.uiowa.edu/costume_design/1237/thumbnail.jp
Light in the Piazza
No full textFeatured here is a rendering of Franca in her costume during Act 1 scene 5. She is wearing a a taffeta burgundy sheath dress, that has a collar going off the shoulders, a drape in the back that is a burnout floral velvet fabric. While designing Franca I wanted to keep her very fashion forward, because she knows what is happening in fashion and follows trends closely.https://ir.uiowa.edu/costume_design/1236/thumbnail.jp
Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: More than Just a Castle
Full text linkThe Meaning of Prophets and the Making of Trolls: 19th-Century Reception of Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge
Full text linkComprised of arson, betrayal, murder, abduction, exploitation, rebellion, and bastardry, Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge is all but a boring read. Set during the Gordon Riots of 1780, Dickens’ fifth novel was published in installments beginning in 1841, each week promising a new cast of characters and events having to do with the anti-Catholic uprisings that had taken place nearly 60 years prior. These uprisings, led by Lord George Gordon, had originally begun as orderly protests over Catholics serving in the British Army; however, they quickly evolved into full-scale riots, with crowds of over 50,000 people burning down prisons, churches, and the homes of Irish immigrants. According to critics, the rise and dominance of periodicals in this period amplified Dickens’ interest in the Riots, which were widely read about and recorded in daily newspapers and political magazines. As Iain McCalman points out, Dickens’ inspiration for the novel may have even come from a coroner’s report that was featured in The Times in 1838 – one that described a man strangling himself in an obscure London Tavern after revealing his revolutionary past. The man, it turned out, had been Lord Gordon’s secretary during the Riots, and this disturbing news bite – along with subsequent others – formed the basis for what would eventually become Dickens’ first historical novel
