Courses/Workshops
Meet & Make at the Museum - Polar light phenomena: Glitter stencilling
Join us for our museum wellbeing and making workshops for adults at the Polar Museum! This session we will be using and creating stencils to create blended glitter art. We will be discussing polar light phenomena.
Saints or sinners: the representation of women in Victorian art and fiction
Mon 20 February 2012 - Mon 19 March 2012
Institute of Continuing Education
The conventional view of women cherished by many Victorians saw them as angels in the house, presiding over hearth and family. ‘Fallen women’ might inspire the philanthropy of Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Dickens, but respectable middle-class families ignored their existence.
However, the ideal never matched the reality, as more and more respectable middle-class females looked for fulfilment beyond marriage and motherhood. This course considers how fiction and art reflected these concerns, and how the idealized images contrast with more realistic and challenging depictions.
Weekly sessions (Mondays 14:00 - 16:00)
20 February: Introduction: woman as scapegoat in Victorian middle-class ideology (Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie)
27 February: Eliot's Middlemarch: can a woman find fulfilment? (Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie)
5 March: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: "a pure woman"? (Ulrike Horstmann-Guthrie)
12 March: Madonnas and monsters: the idea of a woman in Victorian art (Dr Ann Kennedy Smith)
19 March: Women at work: representing the reality of being a woman in Victorian times (Dr Ann Kennedy Smith)
Cost: £100 for the full 5-week course
Enquiries and booking
Please note that booking is required for this event.
Enquiries: Registration department Website Email: registration@ice.cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223 746262
Timing
All times
| Mon 20 February 2012 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
| Mon 27 February 2012 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
| Mon 5 March 2012 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
| Mon 12 March 2012 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
| Mon 19 March 2012 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM |