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Real Time Easy Bib Feed

Courtesy of Pam Harris from McCabe Library, this link shows you what people are citing via Easy Bib right now.

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Real Time Easy Bib Feed

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The Banks of the Jordan

“When I did force my way down to the river side, I found that the water ran so rapidly, and that the bushes and boughs of trees grew so far over and into the stream, as to make it impossible

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The Banks of the Jordan

“When I did force my way down to the river side, I found that the water ran so rapidly, and that the bushes and boughs of trees grew so far over and into the stream, as to make it impossible

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The Brig

Hi! This play by the Living Theatre had a similar goal to Reade; both attempted to reform prison systems through intensive research-turned-art. The play is not online (contact Allen Kuharski for a copy), but here’s a link to a some

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The Brig

Hi! This play by the Living Theatre had a similar goal to Reade; both attempted to reform prison systems through intensive research-turned-art. The play is not online (contact Allen Kuharski for a copy), but here’s a link to a some

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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

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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

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Blog Illustrating Every Page of Moby Dick

I just wanted to share this thing that I came across in my research for the library.  It is a blog that someone made of a project to create an illustration for each page of Moby Dick.  It’s not quite

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Blog Illustrating Every Page of Moby Dick

I just wanted to share this thing that I came across in my research for the library.  It is a blog that someone made of a project to create an illustration for each page of Moby Dick.  It’s not quite

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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

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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

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You’ve Read the Novel (Now Read the Footnotes)

I just ran across this article from the New York Times in 2007 about an annotated version of Pride and Prejudice creatively entitled The Annotated Pride and Prejudice.  The writer strangely lumps Austen in with the Victorians, but besides that,

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You’ve Read the Novel (Now Read the Footnotes)

I just ran across this article from the New York Times in 2007 about an annotated version of Pride and Prejudice creatively entitled The Annotated Pride and Prejudice.  The writer strangely lumps Austen in with the Victorians, but besides that,

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Outlining Process- Week 9, HARD TEAM

Some snapshots of our outlining process! Cathy is not yet back at school so we had a googledocs + Skype outlining session =)

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Outlining Process- Week 9, HARD TEAM

Some snapshots of our outlining process! Cathy is not yet back at school so we had a googledocs + Skype outlining session =)

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Journalistic and historical perspectives on 19th century insane asylums

This article from The Atlantic today looks at medical monograph on “Types of Insanity.” In addition to the kinds of proofs of insanity that Dr. Wycherley and others give in Hard Cash, we have this gem: In some cases we have but little

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Journalistic and historical perspectives on 19th century insane asylums

This article from The Atlantic today looks at medical monograph on “Types of Insanity.” In addition to the kinds of proofs of insanity that Dr. Wycherley and others give in Hard Cash, we have this gem: In some cases we have but little

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“New Ways of Reading: Histories of Surface Reading” Penn Lecture

Last evening, Sharon Marcus (of Between Women fame), Heather Love, and Steven Best gave their lecture on the history of surface reading and the contemporary state of reading, criticism, and criticism about reading. Their talk touched on many of the

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“New Ways of Reading: Histories of Surface Reading” Penn Lecture

Last evening, Sharon Marcus (of Between Women fame), Heather Love, and Steven Best gave their lecture on the history of surface reading and the contemporary state of reading, criticism, and criticism about reading. Their talk touched on many of the

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