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Archive for the ‘America 18thcentury’ Category

Dear friends and readers, Hitherto I’ve put all my conference reports and news about my papers on this blog. Since the beginning of this year when I created a new blog just for Austen and 18th century studies and women writers, I decided that my reports of 18th century conferences, papers and Austen should logically [...]

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“Hill House” — a genuine house just outside London, chosen as embodying just what Jackson imagined, and then photographed as where all the outdoor scenes around it using infrared light (1963 The Haunting) John Atkinson Grimsaw (1836-93), The Haunted House (1882) Dear Readers, Students, Friends, Tonight one of the great American gothic novels and psychological [...]

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The family broken up in a slave auction Dear friends and readers, I continue my report of the fine conference (East Central Region meeting of ASECS at Penn State) centering on the concept of liberty in the long 18th century. Over the course of three days, there emerged a developing definition for different groups of [...]

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