Notes on Reade Visit

Note: huge difference between how he himself writes on the cards and what they look like when the secretary copies them afterwards. Secretary’s is neater, with sections spaced out by straight double-lines in purple ink. Why purple? Did he use

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.