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Research Exercise 6
This research exercise draws on your skills in working with Victorian periodicals, and introduces you to finding specific materials within the published edition of an author’s letters. You will also develop your skills in comparing two editions of a text, and in drawing conclusions about the significance of the changes and discrepancies you find.
Research Exercise 6
This research exercise draws on your skills in working with Victorian periodicals, and introduces you to finding specific materials within the published edition of an author’s letters. You will also develop your skills in comparing two editions of a text, and in drawing conclusions about the significance of the changes and discrepancies you find.
Week 7
I too well remember a time – a long time, of cold, of danger, of contention. To this hour, when I have the nightmare, it repeats the rush and saltness of briny waves in my throat, and their icy pressure on my lungs. I even know there was a storm, and that not of one hour nor one day. For many days and nights neither sun nor stars appeared; we cast with our own hands the tackling out of the ship; a heavy tempest lay on us; all hope that we should be saved was taken away. In fine, the ship was lost, the crew perished. (Villette, 39).
Week 7
I too well remember a time – a long time, of cold, of danger, of contention. To this hour, when I have the nightmare, it repeats the rush and saltness of briny waves in my throat, and their icy pressure on my lungs. I even know there was a storm, and that not of one hour nor one day. For many days and nights neither sun nor stars appeared; we cast with our own hands the tackling out of the ship; a heavy tempest lay on us; all hope that we should be saved was taken away. In fine, the ship was lost, the crew perished. (Villette, 39).
Week 5
“Thus as any given moment of its historical existence, language is a heteroglot from top to bottom: it represents the co-existence of socio-ideological contradictions between the present and the past, between differing epochs of the past […]” (Bakhtin 291)
Week 5
“Thus as any given moment of its historical existence, language is a heteroglot from top to bottom: it represents the co-existence of socio-ideological contradictions between the present and the past, between differing epochs of the past […]” (Bakhtin 291)
Quarry for Middlemarch
Here’s Harvard’s Houghton Library’s facsimile of George Eliot’s notebook Quarry for Middlemarch; this page contains Eliot’s representation of the vote for the new hospital chaplain over a map of Middlemarch and environs: But this entry, from the end of the
Quarry for Middlemarch
Here’s Harvard’s Houghton Library’s facsimile of George Eliot’s notebook Quarry for Middlemarch; this page contains Eliot’s representation of the vote for the new hospital chaplain over a map of Middlemarch and environs: But this entry, from the end of the
Denotation: understudied languages of the novel
This exciting colloquium including Margaret Cohen, Ian Duncan, Supritha Rajan, and Cannon Schmitt looks right up our alley; we’ve been invited to attend but the location (NYU) and our seminar time obviously makes that difficult; I thought that you would
Denotation: understudied languages of the novel
This exciting colloquium including Margaret Cohen, Ian Duncan, Supritha Rajan, and Cannon Schmitt looks right up our alley; we’ve been invited to attend but the location (NYU) and our seminar time obviously makes that difficult; I thought that you would
Novels with Footnotes and Indexes
Related to Christina’s recent post and to Sierra’s post on footnotes in Hard Cash, this bibliography by William Denton of (mostly 20th century) novels with footnotes and novels with indexes; in addition it has a good bibliography of writing on
Novels with Footnotes and Indexes
Related to Christina’s recent post and to Sierra’s post on footnotes in Hard Cash, this bibliography by William Denton of (mostly 20th century) novels with footnotes and novels with indexes; in addition it has a good bibliography of writing on
Week 9 (Reade archive visit 1)
Our rainy visit to Charles Reade’s papers in Princeton’s Firestone Library.
Week 9 (Reade archive visit 1)
Our rainy visit to Charles Reade’s papers in Princeton’s Firestone Library.
Charles Reade archive visit: framing your research questions
What it would mean to develop an argument about Reade’s research as an autonomous practice, perhaps with an aesthetics or purpose if its own? The Barthes and Ngai may help with theorizing Reade’s research as an important practice of its own separate from his novels.
Charles Reade archive visit: framing your research questions
What it would mean to develop an argument about Reade’s research as an autonomous practice, perhaps with an aesthetics or purpose if its own? The Barthes and Ngai may help with theorizing Reade’s research as an important practice of its own separate from his novels.
Charles Reade archive visit: theoretical and critical readings
Here’s the promised post framing our readings on Charles Reade, the novel of research, aesthetics of research, and ideas about note-taking in preparation for both our seminar meeting (which will take place during our trip) and our related visit to
Charles Reade archive visit: theoretical and critical readings
Here’s the promised post framing our readings on Charles Reade, the novel of research, aesthetics of research, and ideas about note-taking in preparation for both our seminar meeting (which will take place during our trip) and our related visit to