Robert D. Aguirre

University of Windsor, Provost and Vice President, Academic, Professor of English

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Mobility and Modernity

Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies

English Studies, 2012

cultural Aestheticism and cheap production values. Anne Humpherys analyses female contributions, ... more cultural Aestheticism and cheap production values. Anne Humpherys analyses female contributions, both textual and visual, to the male-oriented monthly Idler Magazine, while Edward H. Cohen examines the Daily Chronicle’s articles on potential Poet Laureates following Tennyson’s death in 1892. The collection provides a varied and often expertly researched analysis of illustrated journalism throughout the nineteenth century. In this lies its strength but also its weakness: there is variety here, but also a certain lack of focus. While individual essays maintain a close focus on specific periodicals, authors, and time periods (though occasionally with a somewhat tenuous link to the theme of illustration), the collection itself operates within a much looser framework. Some unfortunate errors have also crept in (e.g., ‘‘dickens’’, p. 4; ‘‘(1783–43)’’, p. 40; mismatch of captions and figures, pp. 79–82). Nonetheless, this collection makes a brave contribution to an under-researched field and has much to offer to students of nineteenth-century print culture.

Catherwood, Frederick (1799–1854), architect and traveller

Catherwood, Frederick (1799-1854), architect and traveller, was born in Charles Square, Hoxton, L... more Catherwood, Frederick (1799-1854), architect and traveller, was born in Charles Square, Hoxton, London, on 27 February 1799, the son of John James Catherwood (1752-1829), receiver of corn returns (c.1779-1813) and partner with Henry Caslon from 1814 to 1821 in the Caslon type founding firm in Chiswell Street. His mother was Ann, née Rowe. He received an education in the classics at Haberdashers' School in Hoxton, and during this period developed an interest in architecture. In 1815 he began a five-year apprenticeship with the architect Michael Meredith. In 1820, encouraged by Joseph Severn, a friend of Keats, he took free classes at the Royal Academy, where he came under the influence of Sir John Soane and discovered Piranesi's sketches of Roman monuments. These two figures, along with J. M. W. Turner, who taught at the Royal Academy during this period, profoundly shaped Catherwood's aesthetic vision over the next few decades as he mastered both the faithful recording of monuments and the evocation of the affective experience of viewing them. In September 1821 Catherwood travelled to Rome, where he joined Severn and a large group of English artists known as the Society of Englishmen, including Joseph Bonomi, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, and Henry Parke. He threw himself into the study of Roman art and architecture, 'lay[ing] a foundation that may direct nobly all through life' (Severn: Letters and Memoirs, 168). If Catherwood's head, as Severn wrote, was 'full of Rome' (ibid., 169), his heart, for a time at least, lay with Lady Westmorland, Jane Fane, née Huck Saunders (1779/80-1857), who lived apart from her husband, John Fane, the tenth earl of Westmorland, and was known for her generosity to artists. Severn's principal patron during his early years in Rome, she had invited him to accompany her to Egypt, but Severn instead suggested his friend Catherwood. Within four months of arriving in Rome, Catherwood had taken up residence at Lady Westmorland's Villa Negroni. The brief affair having ended, Catherwood continued his artistic apprenticeship, sketching ruins in Sicily, where he painted Mt. Etna from the Ruins of Tauramina, and then Athens, where he travelled in 1822 and remained, amid the Greek revolt against the Turks, until 1823. Accompanied by his friends Parke and Joseph Scoles, and dressed in Arab garb, Catherwood ventured to Egypt, exploring yet another distant civilization and its monuments.

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Cold Print: Professing Authorship in Anthony Trollope's An Autobiography

Biography, 2002

... forth a strong counterreaction from Thackeray, who, as Howes points out, not only responded w... more

Informal Empire: Mexico And Central America In Victorian Culture

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Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination

Wide Angle: Eadweard Muybridge, the Pacific Coast, and Trans-Indigenous Representation

Victorian Literature and Culture

Eadweard Muybridge's Pacific Coast photographs provide an important site for investigating Vi... more Eadweard Muybridge's Pacific Coast photographs provide an important site for investigating Victorian visual practices of the “wide.” They do not simply expand a referential frame to encompass novel subjects; they also, and more critically, register powerful narratives of temporality and modernity. This essay's analysis of the “wide” as an incipient concept of critical spatiality is not set against the more familiar temporal dimension of the long nineteenth century (a false and ultimately unproductive opposition). Rather, it places these two concerns in some tension with each other, though the argument is less about periodicity than about the representation of timescales in nineteenth-century media. In Muybridge's photographs, thinking about the representational possibilities of width is impossible without also confronting temporality. The Pacific Coast photographs are important both as explorations of timescales and artifacts in an influential nineteenth-century medium a...