Optional Critical Readings

I left critical readings off the syllabus for the last two novels, expecting that you would be too busy at this moment and would welcome a slight break in the reading load. However, I have been asked to post some readings that you can choose to do and to write about for your critical responses.

So, here is an optional critical reading for A Simple Story.

Haggerty, George E.: Female abjection in Inchbald’s A Simple Story.
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 36:3 1996

and another for Persuasion
“‘Unbecoming Conjunctions’: Mourning the Loss of Landscape and Love in Persuasion”
by Jill Heydt-Stevenson, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8:1 (October 1995)

Casanova: Love selections

There is a very nice etext of Casanova’s complete Memoirs. It is perfect for finding intriguing bits left out by our editors.This is the first full English translation from the late 19c; it is not as complete and definitive as the Trask translation from the 1960s.

I will post some key selections that were left out of our edition dealing directly with love.

the first: Christine, who Casanova considers marrying. This is Chapter 19 of the 1st volume.

the second: Henriette, who Casanova has a very long relationship with, spanning Ch 23 of Vol 1, and Ch 1-3 of vol 2. I am linking 1:23 and 2:1 here.

The third: C. C., from 2:12. This one also continues in the following chapter.

Fourth: Madamoiselle XCV

Fifth: Veronique (and Annette)

Last: Pauline