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Research Exercise 7: Aurora Leigh from a distance

“The words ‘cousin’ and ‘friend’ are constantly recurring in this poem, the last pages of which have been finished under the hospitality of your roof, my own dearest cousin and friend: –cousin and friend, in a sense of less equality and greater disinterestedness than ‘Romney’ ‘s.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning, dedication to Aurora Leigh.

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Research Exercise 7: Aurora Leigh from a distance

“The words ‘cousin’ and ‘friend’ are constantly recurring in this poem, the last pages of which have been finished under the hospitality of your roof, my own dearest cousin and friend: –cousin and friend, in a sense of less equality and greater disinterestedness than ‘Romney’ ‘s.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning, dedication to Aurora Leigh.

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Research Exercise 6: epigraph, paratext, republishing

English 111: Victorian Novel Research Seminar Research Exercise 7: Letters, Authors, Pseudonyms, Publishers, Paratexts 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

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Research Exercise 6: epigraph, paratext, republishing

English 111: Victorian Novel Research Seminar Research Exercise 7: Letters, Authors, Pseudonyms, Publishers, Paratexts 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

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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.

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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.

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Alison’s Preparation for the Charles Reade Archive Visit

The Dismembered Novel: The Generic Violence of Reade’s Hard Cash Notecards. Or, following in the sensational vein, I imagine the novel as a body and the notecards as its organs. Hard Cash represents in its characters the bodily and psychological

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Alison’s Preparation for the Charles Reade Archive Visit

The Dismembered Novel: The Generic Violence of Reade’s Hard Cash Notecards. Or, following in the sensational vein, I imagine the novel as a body and the notecards as its organs. Hard Cash represents in its characters the bodily and psychological

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Danielle’s Reade Research Questions

In anticipation of tomorrow’s visit, I am most interested in exploring Reade’s notes on women and his insistence on the many social and biological differences dividing the minds and motivations of men and women. This theme appears to play into

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Danielle’s Reade Research Questions

In anticipation of tomorrow’s visit, I am most interested in exploring Reade’s notes on women and his insistence on the many social and biological differences dividing the minds and motivations of men and women. This theme appears to play into

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Miriam’s Research Interests

When reading “Hard Cash,” one of the things that struck me most was the dialogue of the characters and their use of jargon and slang. How odd, I thought, that a book that begins with a description of how much

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Miriam’s Research Interests

When reading “Hard Cash,” one of the things that struck me most was the dialogue of the characters and their use of jargon and slang. How odd, I thought, that a book that begins with a description of how much

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Reade Research Interests

In discussing notes, I had earlier dismissed any ownership I felt over my records of our class sessions.  That is still the case.  However, reading about Reade’s note-taking and compilation processes have started me into a recognition of his habits

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Reade Research Interests

In discussing notes, I had earlier dismissed any ownership I felt over my records of our class sessions.  That is still the case.  However, reading about Reade’s note-taking and compilation processes have started me into a recognition of his habits

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Reade Research Interests

One of the things that I became most interested in while browsing the transcript was the positioning of the notes themselves in that some of the cards seem very straightforward, containing things which are obviously related to the same topic,

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Reade Research Interests

One of the things that I became most interested in while browsing the transcript was the positioning of the notes themselves in that some of the cards seem very straightforward, containing things which are obviously related to the same topic,

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Reade Research Interest

I am interested in looking at the factual backing to some of Reade’s most outlandish and melodramatic section. This would entail looking at notecards related to both the pirate incident, and the accounts of sane people being locked into asylums.

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Reade Research Interest

I am interested in looking at the factual backing to some of Reade’s most outlandish and melodramatic section. This would entail looking at notecards related to both the pirate incident, and the accounts of sane people being locked into asylums.

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