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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South Central ASECS Conference: at Asheville
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 18th century poetry, 18thcentury actresses, actresses, America 18thcentury, Ann Radcliffe, Austen, Autobiographical, conference report, Conferences, feminism, museums, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, Regency Romantic literature, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged 18thc conference, aphra behn, heroine's text on March 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
EC/ASECS conference on liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: enslaved families; professional women, Priestley, the Paterno library
Posted in 18th century, America 18thcentury, conference report, Conferences, feminism, library books, Plays, Poetry, politics, science, Slavery, Theater, women's novels, tagged Elizabeth Farren, elizabeth inchbald, enslaved women, gambling as liberty, heroine's text, hester thrale piozzi, mary wells, Susannah Centivre on November 17, 2011 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
