book notes on The Mill on the Floss

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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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Week 9 (Reade archive visit 2)

Here’s a slideshow of photos from our second excursion to the Reade archive.

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Week 9 (Reade archive visit 2)

Here’s a slideshow of photos from our second excursion to the Reade archive.

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Hard Cash Illustrations

Above are the illustrations in the Peter Fenelon Collier (1890) illustrated edition of “Hard Cash” in The Works of Charles Reade.

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Hard Cash Illustrations

Above are the illustrations in the Peter Fenelon Collier (1890) illustrated edition of “Hard Cash” in The Works of Charles Reade.

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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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Week 9 (Reade archive visit 1)

Our rainy visit to Charles Reade’s papers in Princeton’s Firestone Library.

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Week 9 (Reade archive visit 1)

Our rainy visit to Charles Reade’s papers in Princeton’s Firestone Library.

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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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