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 »
Books in art and science, Sharp (2): the role of covers, periodicals (Romantic era); Mudie’s non-English and Murray’s travel books
Posted in 20th century culture, Austen, biography, book history, book illustration, conference report, Conferences, French novels, gothic, Regency Romantic literature, Travel Writing, women's art, tagged John Murray, julia kavanagh, monthly periodicals, Mudies Library on July 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The picture gracing the cover of Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women Writers, 1872-1926, edd. Catherine Lundie Dear friends and readers, I continue my tales of my time at this summer’s Sharp conference. I here cover three sessions, two on the first Friday afternoon and the first of four all day Saturday. My topics [...]
Poldark: an 18th century Cornish Che Guevara
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, Costume drama, Film adaptations, Poldark, political novels/films, Regency Romantic literature, romance, Winston Graham, womens' films, tagged historical novels, Jack Pullman, Poldark on June 14, 2010 | 30 Comments »
Lizzard Light, Cornwall Robin Ellis as Poldark Dear friends and readers, It’s been several weeks now since I fell in love with a new (to me) season-long mini-series (previously it was the 1974 BBC Pallisers): I found just irresistible the first season (1975) of Poldark adapted from 4 novels by Winston Graham. I began it [...]
The 18th Century at the Christmas MLA Philly: Thomas Holcroft, Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe; women historians of the Fronde
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, conference report, Conferences, French novels, Regency Romantic literature, translation art, tagged caroline de lichfield, Isabelle de Montolieu, madame de guette, madame de motteville, samuel johnson on February 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Thomas Holcroft by John Opie Memoires of Francoise de Motteville, 17th century historian Dear Friends and readers, Here is my second blog about panels and papers at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia. Here I stay with long 18th century matters. You will learn about the radical Jacobin writer, Thomas Holcroft, his life, translations, and memoir [...]
EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: papers on women poets, novelists, diarists, playwrights
Posted in 18th century, 19th century novels, conference report, Fanny Burney, novels of sensibility, Regency Romantic literature, women's memoirs, women's novels, women's art, tagged Anne Finch, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Joanna Baillie, Mary Brunton on November 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Angelica Kauffman (171401807), The Muse of Composition Dear Friends, This is my fifth report on the smallish conference of 18th century scholars held at Bethelehem, Pennsylvania. It consists of reports on papers from three panels: on Saturday, “Bibliography, Textual Studies and Book History, Part I” (8:30-10:00 am), “Foreign Intelligences” (2:00-3:30 pm), and “Late 18th century [...]
EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: The 18th Century Gothic
Posted in 18th century, conference report, gothic, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, Regency Romantic literature, romance, tagged Frankenstein, Joanne Baillie, science fiction on October 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Dear Friends, This is my second record of the EC/ASECS meeting held last week at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: I’ve written about the meeting of the Burney Society on Thursday afternoon, Devoney Looser’s lecture on Burney’s Memoirs of Dr Burney and our dramatic reading aloud of Burney’s Witlings. Now I turn to Friday’s sessions. The first session [...]
Jane Campion’s Bright Star: yet another lovesick writer
Posted in Costume drama, feminism, Film adaptations, Regency Romantic literature, romance, women's art, womens' films, tagged Jane Campion, Keats, romantic poets on October 18, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Abbie Cornish mothering Ben Whishaw as Keats and Fanny Dear friends Isabel and I went to see Jane Campion’s Bright Star yesterday and while I liked a few things in it, in general I found it disappointing to dismaying. That’s unusual for me, as I usually like costume dramas, historical and film adaptation types both. [...]
Castleton Festival: Britten’s Beggar’s Opera: another kind of adaptation
Posted in 18th century, Conferences, Costume drama, feminism, Film adaptations, history play, opera, Plays, Poetry, political novels/films, Regency Romantic literature, tagged haydn, Jonathan Miller, opera, Patricia Routledge, Rogert Daltry on July 19, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Opening scene of Jonathan Miller’s 1983 version of Gay’s 1728 Beggars Opera (Bob Hoskins as the poet-beggar, Gay, approaching his patron) Dear Friends, Last week I wrote on Reveries under the Sign of Jane Austen about Jim, my and Isabel’s two trips to the Castleton Music Festival held over the month of July in mid-Virginia: [...]
A Passionate Sisterhood: Women of the Wordsworth Circle by Kathleen Jones
Posted in 18th century, Poetry, Regency Romantic literature, women's art on May 25, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Dear Friends, Dove Cottage, recent photo Kathleen Jones’s A Passionate Sisterhood has been my comfort and rivetting book to read in the evening over the past two weeks. I was sorry when it came to an end. Its great achievement is to free representations of women’s lives from the hegemony of men’s stories. She was [...]
