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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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May Reading Calendar for #Clarissa2020

I started making printable/PDF reading calendars for myself after I became overwhelmed in April when I had no idea when the embedded letters would stop....

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April Reading Calendar for #Clarissa2020

I started making printable/PDF reading calendars for myself after the insane reading amounts on April 9 and 12-14, when I became overwhelmed because I had...

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Criticism on Haywood’s Female Spectator: An Overview

Haywood criticism saw a boon in the late twentieth century after feminists unearthed her. Only since about 2010, though, has her Female Spectator garnered the...

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On Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and The Female Spectator, eds. Lynn Wright and Donald Newman. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2006.

The first sustained scholarly study of Haywood’s Female Spectator, Fair Philosopher challenges previous assumptions with essays by established and new (as of 2006) Haywood scholars....

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On Girten, Kristin. “Unsexed Souls: Natural Philosophy as Transformation in Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator Author(s).” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, 2009, pp. 55-74.

Girten explores Female Spectator issues in which Haywood recommends the practice of natural philosophy for women, purportedly inspired by letters from a Female Spectator reader...

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