Jennifer Yee
@jenwhy.bsky.social
Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
Just back from a short trip to Bristol, where it seems people behaved very badly in 1824.
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Just back from a short trip to Bristol, where it seems people behaved very badly in 1824.
La poire est mûre! #NoKings histoirebnf.hypotheses.org/10163
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
La poire est mûre! #NoKings histoirebnf.hypotheses.org/10163
Dangerous steering? Spotted from my office window this afternoon.
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Dangerous steering? Spotted from my office window this afternoon.
I’m writing about Orientalism, so was very interested to see these examples of 18th century Occidentalism from the Qing dynasty in Taipei’s National Palace Museum.
September 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I’m writing about Orientalism, so was very interested to see these examples of 18th century Occidentalism from the Qing dynasty in Taipei’s National Palace Museum.
Teapot art, the zoomorphic variety
September 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Teapot art, the zoomorphic variety
Here is a cat outside a postcard shop pretending to be a cat in a postcard, in Jiufen, aka Ghibli-lookalike village in the mountains near Taipei. Not even #caturday!
September 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Here is a cat outside a postcard shop pretending to be a cat in a postcard, in Jiufen, aka Ghibli-lookalike village in the mountains near Taipei. Not even #caturday!
Lovely to see this book out now! Trying to situate Realism and the Novel in global terms. I have a chapter on 'Nineteenth-Century France and its Colonies'. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
July 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Lovely to see this book out now! Trying to situate Realism and the Novel in global terms. I have a chapter on 'Nineteenth-Century France and its Colonies'. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Some extremely elegant young ladies learning to paint in 1822. Glimpsed in the musée Monet Marmottan.
July 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Some extremely elegant young ladies learning to paint in 1822. Glimpsed in the musée Monet Marmottan.
1931 art deco colonial chic and some interesting responses to it at the musée de l’immigration. I think it does work as a space for historical reflection… fairly well.
July 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
1931 art deco colonial chic and some interesting responses to it at the musée de l’immigration. I think it does work as a space for historical reflection… fairly well.
The seamstresses were so chic they must have added to the fame of the house of Worth.
July 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The seamstresses were so chic they must have added to the fame of the house of Worth.
July 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Yesterday - pennants in Tom Quad ready for Saturday’s ball.
June 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Yesterday - pennants in Tom Quad ready for Saturday’s ball.
Once a year we open the gate (Queen Henrietta’s Gate) between my college and the next, and share drinks with our neighbours.
June 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Once a year we open the gate (Queen Henrietta’s Gate) between my college and the next, and share drinks with our neighbours.
Yesterday I went to see the Bayeux Tapestry in… Reading. A copy, the full 70 metres long, was embroidered by 35 women in 1885-6 (their names are in the blue band at the bottom of the frieze.
June 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Yesterday I went to see the Bayeux Tapestry in… Reading. A copy, the full 70 metres long, was embroidered by 35 women in 1885-6 (their names are in the blue band at the bottom of the frieze.
Various strange beasts in a pop-up exhibition at lunchtime today.
May 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Various strange beasts in a pop-up exhibition at lunchtime today.
Are the heroic victors portrayed attacking from right to left in cultures where the writing moves from right to left, and left to right in left-to-right writing cultures ? (Also: great tiger-skin outfit.)
May 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Are the heroic victors portrayed attacking from right to left in cultures where the writing moves from right to left, and left to right in left-to-right writing cultures ? (Also: great tiger-skin outfit.)
An 1814 caricature of Napoleon with very explicit decoding of the allegory (as with jokes one feels that having to explain detracts from the effect…), from a little exhibition on portraits of powerful men @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
An 1814 caricature of Napoleon with very explicit decoding of the allegory (as with jokes one feels that having to explain detracts from the effect…), from a little exhibition on portraits of powerful men @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
Contraflow is a #poetry anthology arranged in a counter-intuitive way that helps avoid complacency, but it hasn’t helped me work out what Englishness is. Of course, as has been pointed out to me, I have acquired British nationality but one cannot become English.
May 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Contraflow is a #poetry anthology arranged in a counter-intuitive way that helps avoid complacency, but it hasn’t helped me work out what Englishness is. Of course, as has been pointed out to me, I have acquired British nationality but one cannot become English.
Here’s a very well behaved Cerberus. Bluesky censored my post of other mythological scenes because the humans weren’t fully dressed. Sorry! Good thing I didn’t try to post images from the secret chamber…
April 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Here’s a very well behaved Cerberus. Bluesky censored my post of other mythological scenes because the humans weren’t fully dressed. Sorry! Good thing I didn’t try to post images from the secret chamber…
Thoughtful ladies of Pompeii.
April 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Thoughtful ladies of Pompeii.
Spotted some helpful animals in Naples. Who knew that Cerberus could be so well behaved ?
April 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Spotted some helpful animals in Naples. Who knew that Cerberus could be so well behaved ?
I always feel that there is a mysterious narrative thread to follow behind an occluded door.
April 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I always feel that there is a mysterious narrative thread to follow behind an occluded door.
Durham Cathedral making me doubt my preference for Gothic architecture
April 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Durham Cathedral making me doubt my preference for Gothic architecture
Maria Scott recounting the history of @uksdn.bsky.social #SDNDurham2025
April 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Maria Scott recounting the history of @uksdn.bsky.social #SDNDurham2025