Miriam’s thoughts re: Reade visit

The Reade notecards weren’t exactly what I expected. After our discussions and readings about his thorough methods, about how he wanted the notecards to serve as proof or evidence that what he had written was based in fact, I was

Week 9 (Reade archive visit 2)

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

Week 9 (Reade archive visit 1)

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

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

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.

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