My stock answer for how I became an eighteenth-centuryist is that I followed my journalistic career backward. It was great to have the opportunity to explain that thought a bit more in The Washington Post!
Play’s the Thing: Phenomenology and Play in Early Modern Literature, 1500-1800 University of California, Santa Barbara Conference Date: March 4-5, 2016 Proposal Due Date: December 4, 2015 The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites proposals for our annual conference, “Play’s the Thing: Phenomenology and Play in Early Modern Literature, 1500-1800,” to be held on March 4 and 5, 2016. We are happy to...
Following up on a highly successful CSECS panel, I'm organizing a one-day conference at UCSB on the same topic: the continuance of manuscript composition, publication, and circulation in the eighteenth century. I'm hoping for papers from a wide range of fields. After Print: Manuscripts in the Eighteenth Century UC Santa Barbara April 24, 2015 Co-sponsored by the Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School and the...
I'm very excited that my panel for the Samuel Richardson Society will be included at the 2015 ASECS Annual Meeting in LA! Proposal below. “New Directions in Epistolary Studies” (Roundtable) (Samuel Richardson Society) Rachael Scarborough King, Dept. of English, U. of California, Santa Barbara, Mail Code 3170, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170; Tel: (646) 508-4162; E-mail: rking@english.ucsb.edu Recent work on eighteenth-century epistolarity has often taken a materialist bent, but...
The short profile in the New Yorker online of epistolary blog Letters of Note makes clear both the totemic status letters hold in our current media moment, and how aberrant an interesting standalone letter is. The blog features mainly celebrity letters and each one has to hold the reader's interest (the most interesting have also now been collected into a book). The letter represents a form of communication thought...
