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Research Exercise #4: Great Expectations’s first pages
This is hardly an exercise, more of a method of meditating on the material form of Great Expectations in preparation for our How To Treat a Victorian Novel project. 1.Take a look at a few different first pages of Great
Research Exercise #4: Great Expectations’s first pages
This is hardly an exercise, more of a method of meditating on the material form of Great Expectations in preparation for our How To Treat a Victorian Novel project. 1.Take a look at a few different first pages of Great
Research Exercise 2: reviews of Phoebe Junior
What did Victorian readers think of Phoebe Junior? And how would we go about finding the answer to this question? Ideally (perhaps) we would chat with some Victorian readers; since we can’t do this, we need to find written records
Research Exercise 2: reviews of Phoebe Junior
What did Victorian readers think of Phoebe Junior? And how would we go about finding the answer to this question? Ideally (perhaps) we would chat with some Victorian readers; since we can’t do this, we need to find written records
Research Exercise 1: the Dictionary of National Biography and the Times
While Trollope insisted in his Autobiography (1883) that the character of Tom Towers was NOT intended to be taken for a “personality” of or veiled reference to real life Times editor John Delane, their personalities bear more than a passing
Research Exercise 1: the Dictionary of National Biography and the Times
While Trollope insisted in his Autobiography (1883) that the character of Tom Towers was NOT intended to be taken for a “personality” of or veiled reference to real life Times editor John Delane, their personalities bear more than a passing
Research Exercise 3: Great Expectations in All the Year Round: intensive, extensive, and searching reading
Great Expectations was serialized weekly in Charles Dickens’s very popular magazine All the Year Round (AYTR) between December 1, 1860 (volume IV issue 84) and August 3, 1861. We’re each going to choose one 24-page issue and read it to
Research Exercise 3: Great Expectations in All the Year Round: intensive, extensive, and searching reading
Great Expectations was serialized weekly in Charles Dickens’s very popular magazine All the Year Round (AYTR) between December 1, 1860 (volume IV issue 84) and August 3, 1861. We’re each going to choose one 24-page issue and read it to
David Shields, Reality Hunger
On David Shields’s Reality Hunger, drawn to our notice by Sierra: A Christen Lorentzen piece contextualizing Reality Hunger a little in the “fact-checking” framework and a New Yorker round-up of responses to Shields’s argument about the “anti-novel.” Anyone who has
David Shields, Reality Hunger
On David Shields’s Reality Hunger, drawn to our notice by Sierra: A Christen Lorentzen piece contextualizing Reality Hunger a little in the “fact-checking” framework and a New Yorker round-up of responses to Shields’s argument about the “anti-novel.” Anyone who has