Current Projects
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Book-length work in progress: Kitchen Physik: Women’s Recipes and Rural Medicine
in Early Eighteenth-Century
Britain
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Article currently in revision: "Expanding the Archive: A Galaxy of Medicinal Receipts" |
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My article "Uncovering the Traces Left Behind: Manuscript Recipes, Middleclass Readers, and Reading Practices" is being published in Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800 (University of Delaware Press, forthcoming), edited by Laura Runge and Pat Rogers. |
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My students in English 4017/5017: Children's Literature and I just returned from Abingdon, Virginia, where we saw the Barter Players' theatrical performance of Catherine Bush's adaptation of the Grimm's classic fairy tale Rapunzel. After the show, we held a "wunch" (working lunch) right there at Barter Stage II to compare the literary version to the stage adaptation and to analyze the literary and cultural differences and similarities we recognized across the three texts, time periods, and cultural locations represented in the Grimms' classic fairy tale, Shannon Hale's revisionary graphic novel Rapunzel's Revenge, and Catherine Bush's adaptation for stage. |
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Dr. Alan Holmes and I had the pleasure of
working together to construct the 2010 Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference Website. We are delighted to announce that it is LIVE! |
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Book review of Coe Booth's Kendra
published in The ALAN Review |
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Book review of Shannon Hale's Book of a
Thousand Days published in The ALAN Review |
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Book review of Susan Patron's The Higher
Power of Lucky published in The ALAN Review |
Image Credits:
Atheneum Books
The Barter Theatre
Bloomsbury Children's Books
PUSH Publications
SEASECS 2010 Conference Website
Iconographic Collections,
IVC No. 40082
Wellcome Library, London
Manuscripts Division
Johanna St. John, Her Booke, MS 4338
Wellcome Library, London
Phyllis Thompson Department of English 213 Burleson East Tennessee State University thompsop@etsu.edu 423.439.5997