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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(new?) historicist ice cream?

what do YOU think!

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(new?) historicist ice cream?

what do YOU think!

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Week 5

WEEK 5 — 18 FEBRUARY 2013

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Week 5

WEEK 5 — 18 FEBRUARY 2013

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Week 4

11 FEBRUARY 2013            

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Week 4

11 FEBRUARY 2013            

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Week 3

4 FEBRUARY 2013

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Week 3

4 FEBRUARY 2013

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Week 2

28 JANUARY 2013

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Week 2

28 JANUARY 2013

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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

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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

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Week 1

21 JANUARY 2013

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Week 1

21 JANUARY 2013

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