A Seminar at the NAVSA/BAVS Meeting in Venice
June 2013
Moderator: Alan Rauch

(arauch@uncc.edu)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Participants:

J. Stephen Addcox , University of Florida (stevexoc@gmail.com):
"The Memory of Things as Circumstantial Evidence in Mary Barton" [PDF]

Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Liverpool John Moores University (L.M.Matthew-Jones@ljmu.ac.uk):
"The Parable and the Mantlepiece: Religion and Material Culture in
the Rev. Samuel Barnett's St. Jude's Whitechapel vicarage" [PDF] "

Tom Mole, McGill University (tom.mole@mcgill.ca):
"The Mantelpiece and the Pantheon" [PDF]

Maria Parrino, University of Bristol (maria.parrino@bristol.ac.uk):
"Local and Global Food Items in Victorian Gothic Fiction" [PDF]

Carolyn Day, Furman University (carolyn.day@furman.edu):
"Design and Disease: Fashioning the Female Consumptive" [PDF]

Nicole Meline, Rutgers University (nicolemeline@mac.com):
"The Domestic Museum: Art Prints and Fashionable Curation in the Victorian Home"[PDF]

Alan Rauch, UNC Charlotte (arauch@uncc.edu):
"'Italian Boys': The Figurinai of Italy and London." [PDF]

Suggested Reading:

➣ Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Glassworlds. Oxford, 2007.
➣ Brewer, John, and Roy Porter. "Introduction." Consumption and the World of Goods. London: Routledge, 1993. 1-15.
➣ Briggs, Asa. Victorian Things. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1989.
➣ Brown, Bill. Ed. "Things", a special issue of Critical Inquiry (Fall 2001).
➣ Cohen, Deborah. Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
➣ Flint, Kate. Intro to the "Materiality and Memory" issue of RaVon [Link]
➣ Fletcher, Pamela and Anne Helmreich, Ed. The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850- 1939.
New York: Manchester University Press, 2011.
➣ Godfrey, Richard T. Printmaking in England: A General History
from its Beginnings to the Present Day (New York University Press, 1978).
➣ Freedgood, Elaine. TThe Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2006.
➣ King, Lyndel Saunders. The Industrialization of Taste: Victorian England and the Art Union of London,
Studies in the Fine Arts, Art Patronage 4 (UMI Research Press, 1985), esp. pp. 5-33.
➣ Pettitt, Clare. "On Stuff." Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 19: 6 (2008). November 5, 2008.
➣ Plotz, John. Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008.
➣ Tedeschi, Martha. "Where the picture cannot go, the engravings penetrate": Prints and the Victorian Art Market.
Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies. 31.1 (2005): 8-19.
➣ Wax, Carol. The Mezzotint: History and Technique. New York: Harry Abrams, Inc., 1990.