Posts Tagged 'research'
Reade Archive Visit – Wolf Thoughts
Editorial Note: I actually prepared the following write-up during the archive visit, and never found time to post it. I have chosen not to edit it, instead electing to leave my thoughts as they were at the time. A surprising
Reade Archive Visit – Wolf Thoughts
Editorial Note: I actually prepared the following write-up during the archive visit, and never found time to post it. I have chosen not to edit it, instead electing to leave my thoughts as they were at the time. A surprising
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,
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,
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
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
Research Exercise #4: Great Expectations’s first pages
This is hardly an exercise, more of a method of meditating on the material form of Great Expectations in preparation for our How To Treat a Victorian Novel project. 1.Take a look at a few different first pages of Great
Research Exercise #4: Great Expectations’s first pages
This is hardly an exercise, more of a method of meditating on the material form of Great Expectations in preparation for our How To Treat a Victorian Novel project. 1.Take a look at a few different first pages of Great
Research Exercise 2: reviews of Phoebe Junior
What did Victorian readers think of Phoebe Junior? And how would we go about finding the answer to this question? Ideally (perhaps) we would chat with some Victorian readers; since we can’t do this, we need to find written records
Research Exercise 2: reviews of Phoebe Junior
What did Victorian readers think of Phoebe Junior? And how would we go about finding the answer to this question? Ideally (perhaps) we would chat with some Victorian readers; since we can’t do this, we need to find written records
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
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
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
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
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
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