Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Snippets

So, these were the goals last week. I've put the status in brackets:

  • A couple of novellas by EH [No, but I read her "Discourse" which in an important appendix to a work]
  • Read some of Ros Ballaster's Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684-1740 (at least the introduction and EH chapters, maybe more) [Read intro and half of the EH chapter]
  • Read another chapter or two of Certain Lively Episodes [no, but I ordered my own copy for 3.95]
  • Print and finish Shaftbury's Moralists [printed and read the next 75 pages, enough to go back to Prince]
  • Then, I should probably go back to Michael Prince (I had to stop because I needed some Shaftsbury background before I could continue), but I really want to try Michael McKeon again to see if I can get what he's all about. [finished Prince's chapter on Shaftsbury, still don't really understand McKeon very well]
The past two days, I've only had about 1.5 hours to work. Today, I read some short excerpts by Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish. I'm not quite sure what I'll do next. Before I continue with Prince, I need to read some Berkeley. I also want to read more Cavendish and Philips. I want to read a recent book about Anne Conway. I want to read more about the Cambridge Platonists. I want to read Habermas. I'll get to work Thursday and Friday, and I think maybe I should start working on my bibliography and rough outline since I should probably send them to my supervisor within the next 10 days. Eegads!

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