December 22, 2006
Yes, yes, I'm marking (sheesh!)
but I have also been Wiki-ing. For the greater good, don't you know. And, it is helpful to me: it gets me ferreting around where I would not be otherwise.
Here are some excellent resources I have stumbled on in the past few weeks:
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
British Fiction, 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions, The Modern English Collection, and more, at the Electronic Text Centre (some items restricted).
British Women's Novels: A Reading List, 1775-1818
British Women Playwrights around 1800: etexts and articles about little-studied women dramatists
Meta:
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December 17, 2006
Carnivalesque #22
On the table
Natalie Bennett writes about the Cooke sisters, learned women of the Renaissance, and reviews CJ Samson's Sovereign, the third Master Shardlake detective novel set in the age of Henry VIII.
Alan Baumler presents fascinating material in Keeping Halal in the Ming dynasty.
Confused about tipping? Raminagrobis's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves may not help you work out the correct percentage, but it does offer some interesting etymologies.
Really stretching the limits of the "early modern": Mary Mark Ockerbloom alerts us to Diplomatic Difficulties, a new selection of texts at A Celebration of Women Writers which focuses on "women who were first-hand observers or direct participants in the diplomatic process."
Conrad H. Roth translates and comments on a poem by Ausonius about an adulterous woman who poisons her husband but then worries that the poison was not strong enough.
Mark A. Rayner presents The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Pope Leo X Edition) at the skwib.
Across the table
T. Bridges justifies a madman, specifically, William Dowsing, at The Conventicle.
Gavin Robinson discusses shock tactics during the English Civil War at Investigations of a Dog, and explodes some myths about early-modern cavalry charges.
Abu Sahajj suggests that the work of modern American intellectuals "reflects a greater self-absorption than that of 18th century imperialist scholars" in An Occidental-Muslim's Criticism of Empires and Orthodoxies.
On periodization: Longer Than I Don't Remember: Idiosyncratic Periodization for Fun and Profit by Scott Eric Kaufman (host of the most recent History Carnival).
The Long Eighteenth just finished their second collaborative reading, of The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson by Blanford Parker (the first was of Michael McKeon's The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge).
At the table
After several weeks of posts on foie gras, Carolyn Smith-Kizer posts a recipe for Goose Pye at 18thC Cuisine.
And, given the season, recipes for Marchpane.
Books, art, and book art
Jem Webster goes museum hopping and offers Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's Four Figures on a Step (ca. 1655-60) for the reader's perusal.
Sharon points toward Joe Miller's Jests: or, The Wits Vade-Mecum (1739) at staggernation (also home of John Ashton's Modern Street Ballads (1888)).
Mister Aitch offers selections from A Catalogue of Engraved and Etched English Title Pages down to the death of William Faithorne, 1691, at Giornale Nuovo. An earlier post offers images from The Naming of Names by Anna Pavord, "an absorbing history of the study, classification and illustration of plants."
More? Visit Heidelberg Schlossgarten at BibliOdyssey. And linger for images from Fasiculus Rariorum, the Comic History of Rome, and, just today, Stilt Walkers.
Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie always has lots to look at. And don't forget to check the item of the day at the 18th-Century Reading Room.
Onstage
Jem Webster posts about how Daniel O'Quinn's Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800 has affected his teaching.
Tim Abbott discovers an ancestor in the circus.
And — too good! — Hieronimo imagines — and begins — a Shakespearean history cycle about the Bush family. It's funny because it's true.
My graduate course, Women Onstage in the Long Eighteenth Century, just ended. I blogged; the students blogged; and we made forays into Wikipedia. Speaking of which …
Around the web
The latest in Random Wiki-Testing at Blogging the Renaissance. Hieronimo says this is not a meme, but it looks like fun. Might I add, as a suggestion, that people who do engage in this non-meme might want to consider making some edits if they don't like what they find?
The next Carnivalesque will be an ancient/medieval edition at Memorabilia Antonina on or about 25 January. Want to join the carnival? Submit your blog article to the next edition of Carnivalesque using the quick and painless submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on the index page. And please check out the Carnivalesque site.
Thanks to all who submitted links.
November 15, 2006
Okay, so I think
I have a handle on this Wikipedia business: here is the resolution: I will only muck around with material directly related to whatever I am teaching in any given term. Otherwise, it's a maze! One thing leads to another and before you know it, it's an hour past the Jinker Boy's bedtime; he is naked, jumping from chair to chair and yelling out the words of some unrecognizable song at the top of his lungs; the dog is humping the cat; and Joe is in the kitchen sharpening the knives.
So. Women dramatists of the long 18thc is it. Absolutely.
November 11, 2006
I have only myself to blame,
since I'm the one who got my students involved in the first place. But after resolutely staying away — and for the same reasons I have never tried role-playing games — I have spent much of the day Wiki-ing. Some small edits here, a short article there. I can see how people get addicted to it.
And one could make a case, one could: that Wikipedia has become ubiquitous; that it is the first choice of many when seeking information. One almost has a certain obligation to oversee those little corners about which one might have some knowledge or experience.
It's a duty.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
September 5, 2006
First Teaching Carnival of the new academic year,
Teaching Carnival #11, is up at George William's WorkBook. Lots of great stuff; see in particular the section on teaching and technology. Alan Liu offers a draft policy framing for students how to use Wikipedia as a source, complete with bibliography (responses here, here, here, and here). One respondent briefly discusses having students write for Wikipedia, as I plan this term. Several posts on teaching with blogging.
And there are comics.