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Test Post for OAKS Integration
This is a post to see if a link on this blog will open in OAKS, CofC’s online learning management system (LMS). I’m testing because I am strongly considering using a blog as my course homepage and to have that … Continue reading
Book Order for ENGL 524- Fall 2012
Here’s the book order for my graduate class in the fall, the wildly-imaginatively titled, ENGL 524: Nineteenth- Century American Literature II. Heath Anthology of American Literature: Late Nineteenth Century (1865-1910), Vol. C. ISBN: 9780547201665 Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham. … Continue reading
I love inscriptions and marginalia
A wonderful inscription appears on the inside cover of a book I am reading for my sabbatical research, Ken Roemer’s The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900 (Kent State UP, 1998). This is a copy from the shelves of … Continue reading
Women in Aviation Not Pictured
Why does this airline magazine story on women in aviation feature a picture of this guy, the Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, but not pictures of women? I think it’s probably just myopia — no one noticed the problem. … Continue reading
Twain on the Role of the Humorist
Mark Twain, in defense of the role of the humorist, from a letter to the President of Yale University in 1888, which institution was about to grant him an honorary master of arts degree (in 1901, they gave him an … Continue reading