Media Portrayals of Architectural Elements of the British Empire (1830’s)-Morgan Walsh, Steven Kimball, Ava Myette

Media Portrayals of Architectural Elements of the British Empire (1830’s)

What are the images?

  
View Of The Choir Of St.George's Chapel, Windsor. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Morning. 62nd ed. Vol. 2. London, 1833. Print.

The New Screen In Westminster Abbey. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 109th ed. Vol. 4. London: n.p., 1834. N. pag. Print.

Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 109th ed. Vol. 4. London: n.p., 1834. N. pag. Print.South West View Of Lincoln Cathedral. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 54th ed. Vol. 2. Norton, 1833. Print.

"The Ladye Chapel", St.Saviour's, Southwark. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. London, 1833. Print.

The Saturday Magazine

• A British magazine that was published from July 7th, 1832 to December 28th, 1844
• Published by the Committee of General Literature and Education which was funded by the Society for Promoting
• Very affordable magazine that working men could understand and learn from
• The magazine began with an account of some exoctic place, other subsequent articles were about: nature, science, technology and history
• During the time of publication the British empire was expanding rapidly and people were interested in finding out about British conquest world wide

1830's British History 

• William IV succeeds George IV as monarch in 1830
• George IV dies in 1837 Queen Victoria begins her 63 year reign
• The decade was marked by a great deal of tension and unrest
• 1831: Coal Miners in Wales rally for better working conditions in Merthyr Rising
• 1838: People’s Charter was drawn up in the U.K. demanding universal suffrage
• 1839: Newport Rising , the last large scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain

Gothic Architecture

• “Gothic” originally had a negative connotation
• Evolved from the Romanesque Architecture
• It’s signature features included the pointed arch, flying buttresses and the ribbed vault
• Used often when building cathedrals, abbeys, and churches in Europe during this time

The Artifact in Relation to "The Englishman" 

"The Briton may traverse the pole or the zone,

  And boldly claim his right;

For he call such a vast domain his own,

  That the sun never sets on his might.

Let the haughty stranger seek to know

  The place of his home and birth;

And a flush will pour from cheek to brow;

  While he tells his native earth.

For a glorious charter, deny it who can,

Is breathed in the words “I’m an Englishman.”

(ll. 31-40)

The Artifact in Relation to Jane Eyre

“I looked up; he seemed to me a tall gentleman; but then I was very little; his features were large, and they and all the lines of his frame were equally harsh and prim.” (90)  

“as I was sitting with a slate in my hand, puzzling over a sum in long division, my eyes, raised in abstraction to the window, caught in sight of a figure just passing: I recognized almost instinctively that gaunt outline; … I now glanced sideways at this piece of architecture. Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout, and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever.” (124)

Works Cited 

- Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Richard Nemesvari. Ontario: Broadview, 2004. Print.

-"Eliza Cook (1818-1889). The Englishman." Www.bartleby.com/293. Ed. Alfred H. Miles. London: -George Routledge & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907, Aug. 2011. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.

-Krishnamurthy, Aruna. The Working-class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2009. Print.

-South West View Of Lincoln Cathedral. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 54th ed. Vol. 2. Norton, 1833. Print.

-The New Screen In Westnminster Abbey. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 109th ed. Vol. 4. London: n.p., 1834. N. pag.

-“The Ladye Chapel", St.Saviour's, Southwark. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. London, 1833. Print.-Bloy, Marjorie. "The Peel Web." Rural Unrest in the 1830s: The "Swing" Riots. 12 Jan. 2016. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.

-View Of The Choir Of St.George's Chapel, Windsor. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Morning. 62nd ed. Vol. 2. London, 1833. Print.

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