Posted in Karen Bourrier, tagged Luggage, mobility, museum, tourism, transatlantic, travel, Urban Space on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So far, I’ve tried to make all my posts have a point, even if it’s only (and it usually is) an itty-bitty one. But, I’ve been thinking with all of our posts on the nature of technology, isn’t part of the point of blogging that it doesn’t have to have a point? So here goes a very un-Victorian, completely self-indulgent post…
On my recent trip to the UK for BAVS-NAVSA, I dragged friends and family into one of my favourite self-indulgent activities: looking at Victorian things. 
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Posted in Daniel Martin, tagged bodies, Dickens, mobility, railways, sensations on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was very pleased when we first decided to call this blog “The Floating Academy” because I’ve been interested in the metaphorics of floating for a few years now. The Victorians were fascinated, as well as irritated, by floating things. (more…)
Posted in Karen Bourrier, tagged disability studies, masculinity, mobility on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The extent to which nineteenth-century women’s dress impeded mobility is almost a cliché—dresses that weighed in excess of twenty pounds, hoop skirts, balloon sleeves larger than door-frames. But I was surprised to discover just how inhibiting men’s dress could be as well. (more…)
