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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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Footnotes in Reade’s Hard Cash (Sierra’s booknotes)

While reading Hard Cash, I was struck by how Reade used “paratext” as a space to extend the narrative. His footnotes range from slightly snide narrative asides to detailed references to historical events, terminology, or further reference texts. Below I’ve included

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Footnotes in Reade’s Hard Cash (Sierra’s booknotes)

While reading Hard Cash, I was struck by how Reade used “paratext” as a space to extend the narrative. His footnotes range from slightly snide narrative asides to detailed references to historical events, terminology, or further reference texts. Below I’ve included

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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 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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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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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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