How did Victorian tea ware (teapots and accessories) communicate Victorian attitudes about leisure and gentility?How did Victorian tea ware (teapots and accessories) communicate Victorian attitudes about leisure and gentility?
Research expectations: The total number of sources (primary and secondary) for this assignment is a minimum of 10 bibliographic entries, which must include at least 5 books. Due to pandemic restrictions, some students will have difficulty accessing physical books; research conducted using only books available electronically (ebooks) will be accepted for this assignment.
Argument Expectations: All essays should have an introduction with an argument and a conclusion summarizing the essay’s main points. All essays should develop an argument throughout the paper. Your argument is what you think the images or objects mean. All essays must include an actual analysis of the images/objects and background and contextual information. All objects must be British.
Develop your Essay as Follows:
a) Introduction (one paragraph-about half a page): What (your topic)? When (years covered)? How (what objects will you analyze) Meaning (what will you say the objects show?)
b) Context (one to two paragraphs or about 1-2 pages). Provide any background information. Who made the objects? How were these types of objects used or seen? Is there anything about their background that would help someone understand the object? (Tip: Do not let the context take over your paper. The temptation will be to build up this as the research section of the paper. You do want to communicate the nuances of the background concisely, but the paper focuses on your informed analysis of the objects.)
c) Analysis of the Three Objects (at least three paragraphs, probably six paragraphs or more). Analyze your objects. Describe the object. Describe who used it or saw it. Analyze what it means. Provide images of your objects.
d) Conclusion (one paragraph or about half a page). Summarize your main points. (In your summary, do not just list topics, but summarize your findings.) Do not introduce new information. End with a statement about the significance of your analysis.
Historiography: It is not necessary to have a historiographical review (summary of what historians have said about the subject) after the introduction of this essay because, for many objects, there has been relatively little research or historical divergence of opinion.
Illustrations: To reproduce a drawing or photograph in your essay, you may insert it in the body of your essay or in a list of illustrations at the end of your paper before the endnotes or bibliography.
Style Expectations:
-include a title page
-DO NOT USE HEADINGS.
-Essays should be in proper English–no slang.
-Do not quote secondary sources (historians). Quote only Victorians.
Please use Chicago-style footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography. For footnotes, the first time you cite a book, please include the full reference (author, title, place of publication, publisher, date, and page, rather than the short form. Short forms (author, title, page) may be used for subsequent references from the same source.
For footnotes or endnotes: You must footnote not just quotes but any number or idea. Use an elevated number. Number sequentially throughout the paper (1,2,3,4…). No not attach one number to a particular book. Create a new number for each footnote. Do not combine elevated numbers (e.g. do not have a raised 14 & 15 together to refer to two books). To refer to two books, use one elevated number and list the two books in a single footnote.
Footnotes have author names in natural order with first names first, italicized titles, commas after the author and title, and publication information–city, publisher, date– in round brackets, always ending with the date, followed by page number. e.g.
1. Hallie Rubenheld, The Five, (London; Random House, 2020), 15.
Bibliography entries are alphabetized by author surname, use periods after the author’s name and the title, italicize the title and remove the brackets around publication information, again always ending with the date. Never position the date after the author name. Entries are not numbered e.g.
Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five. London: Random House, 2020.
A guide to Chicago Style with examples of how to style articles and websites is linked here:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Checklist for Proofreading Your Paper:
-provide a title on the first page (or use a title page)
-double-space, 12-point font
-number your pages
-no subheadings
-make sure the footnotes follow the Chicago format
-place the bibliography AFTER the endnotes and do not number bibliographic entries.
-any quotes over three lines long should be single-spaced and indented 5 spaces from the left and right margins and DO NOT take quotation marks.
-italicize the titles of books, journals and newspapers
-capitalize all words in proper names e.g. Crimean War (not Crimean war)