Monday, November 16, 2015

12/2: Sir Eustace Grey & The Library

Thanks to everyone who came out to Emma on Friday! We had a really good time. Sadly, we'll be deferring our regularly scheduled meetings one week as well in light of our delayed Emma discussion. So instead of meeting this week, we'll meet the week after Thanksgiving break to talk about George Crabbe's Sir Eustace Grey and The Library. Hope to see you all there!

Friday, November 6, 2015

Dinner with Austen Delayed; or , a Party of Pleasure Deferred

Those interested in dinner and Drinks with Austen night tomorrow might be sorely displeased upon learning that we have failed in our earnest endeavours to procure a table for the event. Apparently some tomfoolery is happening in our humble town tomorrow eve that prevents our convening--every restaurant and eatery of note is simply booked up.

As such, we will have to change course as it were from what we've traditionally done with these dinner series. We are moving the meeting to next Friday. Please let us know if you still intend to attend for Nov 13th at 7pm, by tomorrow at 5 pm so we can make reservations a week in advance to avoid a similar problem. 

You can contact raseiler@indiana.edu or our Facebook page to update and confirm your RSVP.

Our apologies for this annoying inconvenience.

Yours etc.,
Rachel, Tracey, and Kate

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Emma @ Uptown this Friday, Nov 6, 7pm

Just a quick reminder for anyone interested in Jane Austen to join us for our annual drinks and discussion evening. On Friday, November 6th, we will meet at Uptown Cafe at 7 p.m. to discuss Austen’s Emma and relevant criticism. Official discussion starts at 7:30. Discussion will run one hour long, but Drinks with Austen may well continue into the weekend!

If you’re interested in joining us, please RSVP to raseiler@indiana.edu OR on our Facebook page (operated by Tracey Hutchings-Goetz) by Wednesday, November 4th so that we can report a proper number to the restaurant. Faculty are also welcome and encouraged to attend the event, so feel free to pass the news along.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Next week: Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest

Hi everyone!

Thanks for coming last week for our great discussion of David Simple. Personally, I had a really good time! Next up is Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest. We'll be meeting once again in the Parker from 2:15-3:30. Hope to see you there!

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Next week: Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple

Hi everyone!

First, thanks to all who came last week for The Man of Feeling. Up next is Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple. We'll be meeting once again in the Parker library at 2:15 (Wed, Sep 30). The poll is complete, so we will look at the reading list for this semester as well. We look forward to seeing you!

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Greetings!

First, a reminder about our meeting this week, Wed Sep 9 at 2:15 to discuss Helen Thompson's article "'It was impossible to know these people': Secondary Qualities and the Form of Character in A Journal of the Plague Year." We will be in the Parker library once again. The week after this we'll be reading Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling, so keep an eye out for that. 


Also, here is our poll, as promised. There is no limit, but if you vote for all of them we can't tell which are the most popular. Please email katblake@indiana.edu or  thutchgoetz@gmail.com if you have questions!


What would you like to read this semester?

She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
Orra (Joanna Baillie)
Count Basil (Joanna Baillie)
Sir Eustace Gray (George Crabbe)
The Library (George Crabbe)
The Mourning Bride (William Congreve)
The Way of the World (William Congreve)
Desmond (Charlotte Smith)
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (Ann Radcliffe)
The Romance of the Forest (Ann Radcliffe)
Other
Please Specify:
Quiz Maker

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

First meeting tomorrow; Helen Thompson next week

Greetings! We will hold our first meeting tomorrow (Sep 2) in the Parker library at 2:15 pm. Please come with recommendations for reading.

We will also have a special meeting next Wednesday (Sep 9) in advance of Helen Thompson's visit. We'll be meeting at the same time & place to discuss Dr. Thompson's current project. Please read ""It was impossible to know these people': Secondary Qualities and the Form of Character in A Journal of the Plague Year" (available through Project MUSE).

You might also consider taking a look at "Secondary Qualities and Masculine Form in Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison" (also on Project MUSE), another article on the same project. Finally, her 2005 book, Ingenuous subjection : compliance and power in the eighteenth-century domestic novel, is available through the library website. 

Friday, August 28, 2015

First meeting of the 18th Century Reading Group!

Thanks to everyone who responded to our poll! The first meeting of the 18C reading group will be held next Wednesday, September 2 from 2:15-3:30 in the Parker library (and every other Wednesday thereafter, same time). It will be a preliminary meeting to discuss which texts we will read this semester, so come with recommendations! After that, we will meet biweekly, except for September 9, when we'll meet in preparation for Helen Thompson's talk on the 10th (Sassafras Room, 4:00 pm). To get us started, we've selected the first two readings:

Wednesday's 2:15-3:30 in the Parker Library
September 2: First meeting; determine reading list
**September 9: Special meeting in advance of Helen Thompson's talk**
**September 10: Helen Thompson, IMU Sassafras, 4:00 pm** 
September 16: Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (1771)
September 30: Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple (1744)

Click on the links to access e-versions of the texts. 

Monday, August 24, 2015

Please sign-up to join the C18 Reading Group!

The Eighteenth-Century Studies Reading Group is gearing up again for the semester! We are an interdisciplinary group that meets every other week for casual discussion. As a group, we choose texts based our interests (or personal obsessions/dissertations).Our first two meetings will focus on two sentimental novels: The Adventures of David Simple by Sarah Fielding (1744) and The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie (1771).

If you are interested in joining us for our discussion, please enter your schedule into a Doodle poll, so we can set a meeting time: http://doodle.com/7zmxb9f4pydm8hbz#table
We are planning on having our first meeting next week. 

We will also be meeting to discuss articles by visiting speakers ahead of their talks (this year Helen Thompson, Sandra Macpherson, and Jonathan Kramnick will be coming!). So, if this sounds like a group you'd be interested in, send either of us an email at thutchgoetz@gmail.com (Tracey) or katblake@indiana.edu (Kate) and we'll add you to the list. We'll send out another email once we get started and have a set schedule. You can also check out our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/IU-Eighteenth-Century-Graduate-Reading-Group/1436298106614492?fref=nf) and Blogspot (http://c18readinggroup.blogspot.com/)

Special notes:

During the first meeting, we want to create a list of texts that we could discuss this year, so please bring suggestions with you! We will create a poll on this webpage based on your suggestions and ask everyone to vote for the readings they want to discuss. Though we will start by looking at sentimental novels, your suggestions should include anything you're interested in. 

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Rousseau's Julie Up Next!

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Frankenstein discussions over the last few weeks, they have been quite fun and stimulating!

We will dedicate the remainder of the semester to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential novel Julie, or the New Heloise. To give everyone time to acquire, we will take the next two weeks off and meet up again on Tuesday March 24th at the Elm Heights Bloomingfoods at 3 pm to discuss Part One of the novel.

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Please join us to discuss the third and final volume of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein this Tuesday, March 3rd at 3:00 pm at the Elm Heights Bloomingfoods (614 E Second St). We also be deciding on a second text for the semester and a reading schedule. Hope to see you there!

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Frankenstein: Volume 2!

 
Please join us to discuss the second volume of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein this Tuesday, February 24th at 3: 15 pm in the Parker Room (BH 442E), even if you couldn't make it last week. Location to be determined soon. Optional secondary reading: Denise Gigante's "Facing the Ugly: The Case of 'Frankenstein'" from ELH 67.2 (2000), available on JSTOR.

Due to the Roland Greene forum from 2-3 pm in the IMU, we will likely get started a little late.
Coming Soon: Volume 3 on March 3.