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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Ann Radcliffe’ Category
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 »
“‘What are men to rocks and mountains?’” The content of Ann Radcliffe’s Landscapes
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, gothic, listserve life, Margaret Oliphant, novels of sensibility, painting, Poetry, women's novels, women's poetry, women's art, tagged Ann Radcliffe, Beatrice Battaglia, book illustrations, heroine's text on December 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840), Man and Woman [?] Gazing at the Moon (1819) My friendly (and kind) readers, Will I hope remember last week I told of how I had come to decide to fulfill a long-held desire, to write a paper where I would have to gaze at, study, write about the landscapes of [...]
In which I tell of a disappointment and how I’m overcoming it: Radcliffe replaces Trollope
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, book illustration, Conferences, Film adaptations, Italian culture, novels of sensibility, Trollope, visual art, tagged Battaglia, picturesque art on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“‘Is it the poorhouse, yer honor?’”, Rod Walter’s illustrations: Storytelling through Pictures for Castle Richmond or? Christian Wilhelm Dietrich (1712-74), Landscape with Bridge Gentle readers, good friends, I’m afraid I have another rejection from the Victorian &/or Trollope academic scholars to tell about. My proposal for a coming NVSA conference in spring 2001, a highly [...]
The Duke & Phineas & Caroline & Clary: praise for & revamping website
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, Film adaptations, film studies, French novels, gothic, novels of sensibility, romance, Samuel Richardson, Trollope, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged caroline de lichfield, Isabelle de Montolieu, madame max, pallisers, phineas finn, plantagenet palliser, Richardson's Clarissa on August 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Duke of Omnium (Philip Latham) and Phineas (Donal McCann) talking of their political ideals (12:24 1974 Pallisers) Dear friends and readers, I’m taking two days out between preparing and putting new materials for teaching “Exploring the Gothic” as well as writing on the natural sciences and technology (particularly in the field of medicine (e.g, “Patients [...]
Julia Kavanagh: disabled 19th century woman of letters
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, Austen, disability issues, Disabilty studies, Fanny Burney, feminism, Foremother Poetry, French culture, French novels, Life Writing, Travel Writing, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged Amelia Opie, aphra behn, germaine de stael, julia kavanagh, julie lespinasse, madame de layfayette, madame roland, maria edgeworth, sarah fielding, scudery on April 1, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, On the last day of the Christmas MLA conference this past Xmas, I managed to buy for myself Eileen Fauset’s excellent literary biography of Julia Kavanagh, a 19th century Irish woman of letters: The Politics of Writing. Fauset’s biography shows Kavanagh to have been a courageous woman, good novelist, and significant [...]
On never tiring of Northanger Abbey
Posted in 18th century, Ann Radcliffe, Austen, gothic, translation art, women's art, tagged northanger abbey, wife abuse on December 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Claude Lorraine (1600-72), Landscape with Psyche (aka The Enchanted Castle) Dear Friends, I seem never to tire of writing papers on the gothic in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. I’ve had a proposal accepted for the coming AGM at Portland, Oregon, to give a paper to be called “People that marry can never part: real and [...]
Northanger — at the last
Posted in Ann Radcliffe, Austen, gothic, women's novels, tagged lady susan, sanditon on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“‘I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours.’ ‘But they are such very different things!’ ‘–That you think they cannot be compared [...]
EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: Discovering Mom in the Convent: Representations of Maternity in Gothic Literature
Posted in 18th century, Ann Radcliffe, conference report, feminism, gothic, novels of sensibility, women's memoirs, women's art, tagged leonor fini, Marie Antoinette, Mary Robinson, motherhood on October 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Remedios Varos (1908-63), Luna Dear all, Here is my third report of a session at the recent East Central 18th Century conference in Bethlehem. I’ve summarized Devoney Looser’s lecture on Burney’s Memoirs of Dr Burney, and a session on four little known 18th century gothic texts, and a session on the treatment of Catholicism in [...]
