H04067 NOTES AND QUERIES - 10/1/04 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES

JUDE QUERY

NEWS ITEMS

TEACHING TESS QUERY

ROSEMARIE READING HARDY

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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu

Subject: Jude Query

Date: October 1, 2004 7:10:54 AM PDT

Dear all,

This request came to the VICTORIA List. You may send any responses

directly to the writer, or I will forward any that come to the Forum.

Many Thanks,

Betty

from: "Amanda L. Brobbel" <brobbel@U.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subject: Quotation query

To: VICTORIA@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU

An appeal to the collective wisdom of the list.

Is anyone out there able to identify the origin of the quotation from following

passage in _Jude the Obscure_ (Book first, chapter seven)? A graduate student

colleague here at the University of Arizona is teaching _Jude_ this semester

and came to me for help. The edition I have does not have a citation and I

couldn't find anything on Google (except multiple references to Hardy).

She was not there now, and "the embroidery of imagination upon the stuff of

nature" so depicted her past presence that a void was in his heart which

nothing could fill.

Thanks in advance,

Amanda Brobbel

brobbel@u.arizona.edu

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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu

Subject: News

Date: October 1, 2004 7:15:40 AM PDT

Dear All,

The two news items below were forwarded to us by Robert Goddard.

Thank you Robert!

Betty

1. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography website provides a daily

profile and today Leslie Stephen is featured. For further information, see:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/

2. According to Amazon, Michael Millgate's "Thomas Hardy - A Biography

Revisited" has been published by OUP. On the OUP website it's possible to

read Millgate's prologue to the revised edition. The relevant URL is:

http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-927565-3.pdf

With best wishes,

Robert Goddard

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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu

Subject: Unidentified subject!

Date: October 2, 2004 3:42:21 PM PDT

Dear All,

Here is another message sent to VICTORIA that some of you may wish to

respond to. Write to Meegan directly, or I will forward any messages

coming to the Forum to her.

Many Thanks,

Betty

From: Meegan Kennedy <mkennedy@ENGLISH.FSU.EDU>

Subject: Teaching _Tess_

To: VICTORIA@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU

Precedence: list

Status:

I am putting together a preliminary reading list for a graduate

course next spring on novels serialized in Victorian periodicals. I'd

like to include Hardy's _Tess of the d'Urbervilles_, in part because

it offers such a good opportunity to discuss editorial pressure on

authors and to get students to consider how publication history can

produce different versions of a novel.

Are there particular editions of the novel that listmembers have used

and that support teaching the serialization and bowdlerization of

_Tess_? I'm tracking down copies of various editions now but probably

will not have them in hand before I have to decide whether or not to

include _Tess_ in the course. Having this information in the edition

I order is especially significant because my university library does

not own a copy or microfilm copy of the periodical in question (The

Graphic), as it does for the other serialized novels we're reading.

I'm considering using another novel altogether because of this

problem -- unless we can get interlibrary loan to borrow a microfilm

copy of the relevant volumes.

I've checked the archives of VICTORIA and read the previous threads

on teaching the serial novel, teaching novels serially, etc. However,

I'd also appreciate any specific advice on using the periodicals

themselves in the course. I am planning on having students research

individual periodicals; we will also consider the placement, context,

and illustrations in the periodical version of each novel, if

possible.

Best,

Meegan Kennedy

Assistant Professor

Department of English

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580

http://english3.fsu.edu/~mkennedy/

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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu

Subject: Jude Query

Date: October 3, 2004 3:11:37 PM PDT

Amanda Brobbel, who was seeking the source of quotation in Jude, sends her

thanks to Paul and Patrick whose messages I passed on to her. To Patrick,

who identified the passage as from Voltaire, she adds:

"This is great. I like seeing it in the original French".

Thanks to both of you,

Betty

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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu

Subject: Rosemarie on the Radio Reading Hardy

Date: October 14, 2004 10:17:12 AM PDT

You may want to know that Rosemarie Morgan, TTHA President, will be featured on Poetry Radio, a production of the local NPR station here in central Illinois on Sunday, October 17 at 10AM and 10PM, Central Time. And by a happy conjunction, she will be reading this month's Poem of the Month: "Autumn in King's Hintock Park."

Most of you, of course, don't live within the broadcast range of WGLT, but you can listen on-line world-wide by going to:

www.wglt.org

and clicking on the button that says "Listen." The program is quite short--just about 2 1/2 minutes--so I'd recommend that you get your computer on and ready a few minutes in advance. On Sunday mornings, in fact, the program frequently airs just a few minutes before 10AM.

And then, when you've heard Rosemarie read the poem, perhaps you'll want to go to the POTM site and see what this month's contributors have had to say about the poem:

http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS/login

best,

Bill Morgan

Producer, Poetry Radio

Director, Thomas Hardy Poetry Page

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From: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu

Subject: Rosemarie on the Radio Reading Hardy

Date: October 16, 2004 7:58:24 PM PDT

Reminder for tomorrow 10:00AM & 10:00PM (Central Time):

Dear Forum Members,

Most of you, of course, don't live within the broadcast range of WGLT, but you can listen on-line world-wide by going to:

www.wglt.org

And then, when you've heard Rosemarie read the poem, perhaps you'll want to go to the POTM site and see what this month's contributors have had to say about the poem:

http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS/login

best,

Bill Morgan

Producer, Poetry Radio

Director, Thomas Hardy Poetry Page

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From: 2727@tampabay.rr.com

Subject: Good show, Rosemarie and Bill...

Date: October 17, 2004 8:17:52 AM PDT

Your reading of "Autumn in King's Hintock Park." was excellent, though I was so busy trying to find my recorder program that I didn't listen as closely as I might have. Also, I thought that there would be some warning or announcement before your reading of the poem began.

No problem, I will be ready at 11:00 PM, recorder at the ready!

Michael Stoddard

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