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Reade Research Interests

Dear Rachel and Seminar, I hope you all had lovely breaks, full of rest and the love affairs of the Dodds and Hardies! I think I actually started thinking in Reade’s writing style after a few days… The parts of

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Reade Research Interests

Dear Rachel and Seminar, I hope you all had lovely breaks, full of rest and the love affairs of the Dodds and Hardies! I think I actually started thinking in Reade’s writing style after a few days… The parts of

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Reade Research Interests

My notes feel rather scattered at the moment–I’ll do my best  to elucidate them a bit. While reading through the archive materials, I was struck by several things: Reade’s distinctly visual organization system, the reliance on newspapers as the dominant,

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Reade Research Interests

My notes feel rather scattered at the moment–I’ll do my best  to elucidate them a bit. While reading through the archive materials, I was struck by several things: Reade’s distinctly visual organization system, the reliance on newspapers as the dominant,

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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