Season 1 Episode 8: The Collector’s Edition
Hosted By Vanessa Warne and Anne Hung
With Guests Maria Zytaruk, Freya Gowrley, and Alison Hedley
In this episode, we speak with three scholars about the material history of collection, a practice and an approach to the material world that defined Victorian culture.
Transcript
Read a complete transcript of the episode here!
Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.
References & Resources
Learn more about Maria Zytaruk’s work.
Read the catalogue for Maria’s exhibit, Nature on the Page: The Print and Manuscript Culture of Victorian Natural History.
Explore the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Listen to Maria’s CBC Radio documentary Seed Banks: Re-sowing Paradise.
View The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala, starting with George Cruikshank’s vignette.
Learn more about Freya Gowrley’s work.
Visit the Sherborne House online.
Explore the University of Kent Digital Library.
Check out “William Macready & Charles Dickens's Scrap Screen” at Victorian Things.
Learn more about Alison Hedley’s work and her book Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918.
View James McNeill Whistler’s Whistler v. Ruskin: Art and Art Critics.
Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.
Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.
Drake, Sarh Ann. “Galeandra baueri. Produces racemes of bright, fragrant bell-shaped flowers. Epiphytic orchid often found on palm trees at elevations of 2,500-4,000 feet. Native from Mexico to Colombia.” (detail).