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!

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!

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

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.