Dinner with Smollett and Dr. Jesse Molesworth

Hello All:

Please join us on Tuesday, April 29th, from 6-7:30 p.m for our last reading group discussion of the term. We will be joined by Dr. Jesse Molesworth (restaurant TBD) for an excellent discussion on Smollett's novel, Peregrine Pickle.

Drinks, snacking, and casual conversation will run from 6-6:30 p.m., so don't sweat it if you're late! Discussion proper begins at 6:30 and runs for an hour.

Please RSVP 24 hours before the event either through Facebook or by emailing Rachel at raseiler@indiana.edu so we know how many to request for a table!


For a link to the text, please see below:

Smollet, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle


Optional/Recommended Text

Molesworth, "Can the Novel Enlighten?" from Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic*

*This is the introduction to Jesse's book--I will try to post a PDF about a week before the event for people to read through at leisure.

Vindications with two Marys!

Hi All:

For the month of April, we will be reading Mary Wollstonecraft with our very own Dr. Mary Favret! Dr. Favret has written on Wollstonecraft quite extensively, and teaches Wollstonecraft's works across her undergraduate and graduate courses.

For the venue, Dr. Favret has selected Ami (1500 E. 3rd ST.) as the restaurant and meeting place of choice. While there are a variety of vegetarian, meat, and fish dishes to choose from admist sushi and traditional Japanese dishes, there is also good wine and beer selection, as well as reasonably low priced appetizers if you prefer to sip and snack, rather than feast, during discussion.

We will be meeting Monday, April 7th, at Ami from 6 - 7:30 p.m. From 6-6:30 p.m., we will have casual discussion, snacking, and ordering. Discussion proper will begin at 6:30 and run until 7:30.

Please let Rachel or Kate know if you plan on attending so we know how many to ask for when we get a table! Do show up to support your group and your faculty--especially considering it's a short read this week! For a link to the text, click below.

Readings

Primary: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Man

Secondary: (not required, but if you can get your hands on Mary Favret's chapter on Wollstonecraft in Romantic Correspondence, you should give it a good read--it's excellent! If I can get my hands on a copy in time, I will post it here!)

Dinner with Godwin

Greetings! For those of you attending dinner with Godwin, here is the information:

Reading: Political Justice Vol. 1 Books 2 & 3
Location: Finch's Brasserie
Time: Wednesday February 26, 6-7 pm
Reservation name: Kate Blake (in case you arrive early)

Thanks to all of those who RSVP'd! We look forward to talking with you!

Drinks and Dinner w/Jane Austen and Her Critics

Please join us for the last leg of this tri-part event: Dinner with Austen and Her Critics
 
Friday, February 21st @ Finch's
Drinks, ordering, and casual chatter begin at 6 p.m. Discussion goes from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.




Below you will find a list of the readings we will be covering and where to access them for free.




1. Mary Favret, "Everyday War." ELH 72.3 (2005) - Can be found for free on JSTOR via IU Library

2. Claudia Johnson, "Sense and Sensibility: Opinions Too Common and Too Dangerous." Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel. (Link is to Google Books--this is Chapter 3 in the free preview.)

3. William Galperin, "What Happens When Jane Austen and Frances Burney Enter the Romantic Canon?" Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. (Link is to Google Books--this is a large but incomplete portion of this essay. No worries, you'll be able to follow. Feel free to stop reading at "Coda: Shelley...")

4. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl." Critical Inquiry 17.4 (1991)


We look forward to seeing you there--don't forget to RSVP on the facebook event or via e-mail to Rachel by Thursday, Feb. 20th at 5 p.m.!

Cheers!

Dinner and Drinks with Austen: The Readings

For those interested in joining us for the Dinner and Drinks with Austen series, please see below for a list of links to e-reader and PDF versions of our readings. Alternative hard copy versions welcome.




Sense and Sensibility

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/161


 Persuasion

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/105

Criticism

(2-3 of them TBA)

Favret, Mary. "Everyday War." ELH 72.3 (2005): 605-33. (Available via IU Libraries)


Galperin, William. "What Happens when Jane Austen and Frances Burney Enter the Romantic Canon?" Lessons in Romanticism. Ed. Thomas Pfau. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1998. (PDF will be e-mailed to list of RSVPs two weeks prior to meeting)

Drinks and Dinner with Jane Austen

Welcome back from break! A few people from the Eighteenth-Century Reading Group and the Nineteenth-Century/Victorian Reading Group have decided to co-host three casual meetings over the course of January and February---we're calling it "Dinner and Drinks with Jane Austen." We will be reading and discussing Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and some of the most crucial (and some of the most recent) Austen criticism across several delicious Bloomington dining and drinking locations. You need not be a specialist in C18 or C19 British literature to attend! And, of course, if you are in need of transport to any of the events, you may contact me at raseiler@indiana.edu and I will personally send over a phaeton or barouche for your convenience.


The dates and locations are below--while most of the time our respective reading groups do not require RSVPs, we are hosting these events at restaurants, so please contact me (again at raseiler@indiana.edu) at least 24 hours prior to the event so I can have a decent estimate of the headcount for reservations. Reminders will be sent out closer to the dates!


Dinner with Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Friday, January 24th @ Farm
Drinks, ordering, and casual chatter begin at 6 p.m. Discussion goes from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.


Dinner with Austen: Persuasion
Friday, February 7th @ Uptown
Drinks, ordering, and casual chatter begin at 6 p.m. Discussion goes from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.


Dinner with Austen and Her Critics
Friday, February 21st @ Finch's
Drinks, ordering, and casual chatter begin at 6 p.m. Discussion goes from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Group postponed until next semester

Hello everyone,

Due to low-turnout and end of the semester craziness, we will be postponing the group until next semester. At that time, we will discuss a new reading schedule. Best of luck with final papers, exam prep, and/or grading!