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Wieland Or, What’s the Problem?
Architecture l l l 17 th-century Architecture 18 th-century Architecture Landscape Architecture Housing design Architecture in Philadelphia Monticello
Medicine l l Spontaneous combustion Insanity Auditory hallucinations Schizophrenia
Servants • • • Slavery practices and laws to 1800 Contemporary thinking about managing slaves Philadelphia Indentured servitude Origins of the servants
Foreigners l l American policy to foreigners Alien and Sedition Acts Immigration policy Portrait of various immigrants, various countries
Criminals l l l Change in treatment of criminals Detection of criminals Expectations for criminal behavior and criminal element
Machines/Inventions l l Ventriloquism Mesmerism Fashion Clocks
Democracy: America 1790 s l Away from marking power, hierarchical display – – – Public executions and scaffolds Showy, landscaped houses Sumptuary laws Scientific learning: clocks, instruments Excess—food, space, servants Georgian architecture
By the 1780 s l Towards “masking” and Capitalism – – – “See and not be seen” landscaping Clothes an uncertain clue Merchants and others could gain wealth Efficient use of space Servants to be hidden No public punishment
Architecture l l Prominent house Georgian architecture Manipulated perspective Symmetrical landscaping
Before 1780 s
Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
l l “Articulated landscape, ” serpentine drive See all work areas, all neighbors, but not be seen TJ “went to great lengths to render his enslaved workforce invisible” Fence to hide slave cabins
Dumbwaiter l Lazy Susan l Garde-robe privy emptied from the basement l Underground passage from kitchen l
Mettingen
Secluded places
Layout of Clara’s house
Coincidence l The first thing that Brown did when he finished writing Wieland was to send a copy to Thomas Jefferson, who was then Vice President of the United States.
Servants l l “Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; …will…produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race” Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia”
Clara, in Wieland l “My temper was the reverse of cruel and imperious. My heart was touched with sympathy for the children of misfortune…My purse…was ever open, and my hands ever active, to relieve distress…. There was no face which lowered at my approach, and no lips which uttered imprecations in my hearing…Whom had I offended? ”
Clara Wieland, on Mettingen “The cheapness of the land, and the service of African slaves, which were then in general use, gave him, who was poor in Europe, all the advantages of wealth” and “enabled him to dispense with personal labor” (17).
Slave rebellions before 1800 exposed what slave owners needed to deny for their own peace of mind: the possibility of traitorous house slaves. l l Toussaint L’Ouverture, leader of the slave rebellion in Haiti, was “at the height of his power” in the 1790 s and other slave rebellions surrounded the century mark. Awake to such dangers within her own household, a planter’s daughter remarks in her diary, “‘Every black man is a possible spy’” (Accardo and Portelli 79).
Judith l l 1 st voice in closet=ladder 2 nd voice at secluded bench=favorite hideaway 3 rd voice in closet=schedule and unlocked door 4 th voice trapping Wieland=cellar trapdoor open
Unnamed servant l Watches Wieland murder his family from a closet, and testifies against him l Burns down Clara’s house
Medicine l l What happens to Wieland, Sr. ? What happens to Wieland, Jr. ?
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