As part of the big house declutter (a long project to precede the BIG MOVE next year, I finally unboxed all my copies of the Lady’s Magazine and found them a home). #ladysmagperiodicals #rarebooks #18c #19c

Today I am writing about the myriorama, a #19c parlor amusement that took the form of a box of cards imprinted with bits of scenery. The idea was that one could rearrange the cards to form ever new landscapes, & from 16 cards, it was said, obtain 20,922,789,999,000 variations.

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So glad this book is out. Alison and I are also co-editing a forthcoming volume of dozens of #19C women philosophers in the US and UK.

If we assume they weren't there, we don't look for them. Then we don't find them. And they deserve to be found.
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Hello new followers. I'm a PhD candidate in 19C AmericanLiterature, Book History, and Trans Studies at #UIUC. My dissertation is about how the material aspects of the book--from the binding to the typography--contributed to the formation of white cisheternomativity as a "natural" default by the end of the century. I post about #bookhistory, #19C #AmLit, #TransStudies and other trans stuff, #letterpress printing and #BookArts. You can also expect posts about my dog Arlo and occasionally about my cats Matzah Ball and No.44 New Series 864,962 (IYKYK).

Ok, I should be working on a tenure review today, but instead am going down internet rabbit-holes. The latest involves a collection of #scrapbooks kept by the students of #AmherstCollege in the late #19c, a young man named William Belcher Whitney included. Here is an esp strange & imho creepy page, on which he's arranged into a heart shape the hairpins he's collected from his acquaintance at #MtHolyoke. There's a great discussion of this book on the Amherst Special Collections blog, ca 2012.

#Stendhal introduces Lucien Leuwen in the first paragraph as a student who gets expelled from the Polytechnique for "taking a walk at the wrong time" (during the April/June rebellion 1832 or 1834). I love the irony of that opening & always assumed he really just went for a walk. Now I fear that "taking a walk" could be 19c code for participating in protests & that the opening paragraph isn't as good as I thought. #literature #France #19c

With so many scenes of farewell on the Bird app today, it is high time for some #album verse from the #19c, which used the language of flowers to plead “Forget Me Not.”
This page of #collage, w/ poem & floral sprigs, is in the John Hearne album at the YCBA.
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What is better than a #19C #book #title? They promise you EVERYTHING...

(This one was located by a friend using the Weird Old Book Finder, built by @clive.)

https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me/

@toddo when I read it, I really liked the comedic elements. Eliot is a sharp observer of town life, like Austen, and her humor is similarly very sharp.

Dorothea made me guffaw -- often. Enjoy!

#EnglishLit #Victorian #19C

Since almost everything has seemed this week to be declining and falling, it seems high time to share one of the strangest paintings at the Harvard Art Museum: Charles Bird King’s 1830 “The Vanity of the Artist’s Dream.” I am also motivated by my hope that @dbellingradt might be persuaded to do one of his paper spotting analyses on this image.
#trompel’oeil #paper #AmericanPainting #19C

I keep thinking about Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: 2000-1887, a story that took as it’s grounding premise that by socializing the profit motive and essentially turning the entire nation into laborers for one massive corporate entity, utopia could be achieved. I think about it bc whether it’s bailing out high risk losses during crisis or bankruptcy laws that privilege speculation or re-categorizing rights to corporate personhood, socialism exists for the profit motive #19c #victodon #utopia

The call for PhD applications will soon be opening up around here (deadline 1 March 23): it's relatively competitive (only for top 10–15% of MA students & a detailed proposal needed), but it's also a VERY generous programme: 4y, excellent salary + bench fee, working conditions, independence. Are you (or do you know anyone) who'd be a great researcher, with a great idea—on #Romanticism, very (very!) long #19C #18C ; British and/or transnational/comparative? Do get in touch! #phd #academic