Gendered Bricolage: Pinterest, Tumblr, and the 19th Century Commonplace Book

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, , and the 19th Century Commonplace Book. Evan Hayles Gledhill, PhD Candidate, University of Reading Gendered Bricolage:

Transcript of Gendered Bricolage: Pinterest, Tumblr, and the 19th Century Commonplace Book

, ,

and the 19th Century Commonplace Book.

Evan Hayles Gledhill,PhD Candidate,

University of Reading

Gendered Bricolage:

“[the bricoluer] interrogates all the heterogeneous

objects of which his treasury is composed to discover

what each of them could 'signify' and so contribute to

the definition of a set which has yet to materialize”

Claude Levi-Strauss,

The Savage Mind

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• Actors grouped by appearance in a particular series.

• Not in order of appearance, fan popularity, or length of residence on show.

• Arrangement is aesthetic.

• No names

• No identification of actors

• No source for quote

• No specific order

• No single link between

source texts

Gifset – when viewed online,

each image is a small clip of

the action onstage.

This set is themed by costume

changes. The play is A Streetcar

Named Desire, and the actress

Gillian Anderson. The set is

labelled clearly.

O’Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Inscription in pencil, on engraving carefully cut from larger page

and pasted into album

This link takes you to the

text of the play from

which the quotation is

drawn, to the scene itself,

providing context.

Actor’s name the most prominent –

the character he is portraying is second

The publisher of the image is the information below that

Thank you.

[email protected]

Picture attribution:

Special Collections, Manchester

Metropolitan University Library