Reading the Victorian Souvenir: Sonnets and Photographs of the Crimean War

The Archaeology of the Siege of Fort William, 1746

“…As Natalie Houston (2001;354ff ) has demonstrated, the CLB became a spectacle for the British public, one which was originally a matter of pride in the sacrifice of the Charge in the early days of public enthusiasm for the war. This mood is reflected in a number of the memorials of the period.…”

“Horned Perplexities”: Melville's “Donelson” and Media Environments

“…Tennyson's poetic decisions are based on provoking a “do or die” patriotic response, not portraying particularized people or actions. As Natalie Houston shows, in subsequent revisions to the poem he even removed or generalized specific detail that he had borrowed from a newspaper account in order to aestheticize the action and to conform to an elite audience's expectations regarding poetic and painterly conventions 7…”