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It’s all in the family (business): Divided Power and Organizational Behavior In King Lear, Act 3

Othello and the Drama of Basic Cable: A Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan for: Dividing kingdoms, people, and minds: King Lear, Act 1

Shakespeare’s Prince: A Lesson Plan for Contemplating Shape-Shifting & Authenticity in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1

Fortune’s Fool: A Lesson Plan for Romeo & Juliet

Where Two Raging Fires Meet: Using Online Dating to Teach Taming of the Shrew

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From Nepal to Rochester; Or, Trekking with Jane Eyre

Less is More: Haywood’s Fantomina and Women’s Compensation for Roles of Lover and Writer

The Road to Riches Is Paved with Prudishness and Prose

The Legend of Pamela: Or, “Oh the sword! The sword!” in which Pamela Defeats Villains Equipped with Nothing but Physical Weakness and Verbal Strength

Satire as Antidote: Anti-Pamela and Shamela

Tomfoolery as Teacher: A Raucous Romp through Lusty Ladies and Treacherous Taverns Punctuated by Chance Encounters with Good Samaritans with your Host, Parson Adams

The Castle of Otranto Deconstructs Romance and Realism with the Crash of a Helmet

A Virtual Tour through The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Shauna Lynch

Book Report: The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Shauna Lynch

The 18th Century Marriage Market as per Evelina’s Lord Orville and Sir Clement Willoughby

Eliza Haywood and Empire: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator

Constructing and Performing Masculinity in the Novels of Richardson, Radcliffe and Austen

Character and Context in Equiano and Swift

“The Power of my Pen”: Wielding Subjectivity to Engage and Influence the Collective Experience of the Nation

Dividing the Kingdom: Non-Monarchical Perioditization of English Lit

Jealousy and Public/Private Rebellion in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History

Strictures on the Modern System of Miss Thoughtless, Miss Milner and Miss Price’s Educations

“You’re a real woman now; you’re making babies.” Homeownership, body-ownership, in Jane Austen’s Persuasion/now

Severing sex from violence in Colonial/North America: a legacy

Investigation (part 1 of 2): Untangling the mystery of Salem’s witches

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Kelly Plante

Kelly Plante. Writing teacher, essayist, PhD student. Interests: 18th-century novel & nonfiction, public humanities, writing by/about women, history of the self. Writing appears in The Bear River Review, AFAR Magazine, Detroit area newspapers and Prometheus Dreaming, among others. HumanAbstracts.com weaves literary analysis through (my) life experience. See more of my writing kellyplante.com.

“The Wheel Is Come Full Circle; I am Here”: An Inter-text Approach to King Lear, act 5

“The Wheel Is Come Full Circle; I am Here”: An Inter-text Approach to King Lear, act 5 This lesson plan builds upon recent scholarship in...

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Anointing the Self with Healing Light: Radical Self-care and Recovery/Reintegration

Josiah Wedgwood, creator of the still-coveted matte-style pottery of the same name, was also a staunch abolitionist. He designed the “Wedgwood Slave Medallion” which served...

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The Reputation of a Woman: Female (Self) Authorship, Journaling, and the Rise of the Epistolary Novel

“Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of...

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Habermas’s Rise of the Public Sphere: “News Paper” & Novel Consumerism in 18th Century England

Solely by the act of translating Habermas, and in articulating “why now?” for multiple rhetorical spheres/readerships, this translation in its introduction (1) sets itself up...

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Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Original Non-conforming Conformists

The Romantic subjectivity of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—and the sharpened skill of their wordsmithing—draw emotions from me, a woman two centuries their junior...

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