{"id":628,"date":"2015-11-09T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T21:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=628"},"modified":"2015-11-09T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T21:26:54","slug":"monday-missive-november-9-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/monday-missive-november-9-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – November 9, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celebrating the 150th Birthday of <\/b>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/b> — <\/i>The publication history of Alice’s Adventures of Wonderland <\/i>is a bit on the curious side.\u00a0 Lewis Carroll and his illustrator, John Tenniel, initially intended to release the book in July 1865.\u00a0 In fact, an edition of 2000 copies came out in June, but Carroll and Tenniel disliked the way the illustrations looked in this edition so they immediately withdrew the edition.\u00a0 However, twenty-three early presentation copies of this edition survived, and they are now worth a fortune.\u00a0 In November 1865, a second edition was published.\u00a0 Even though it was technically a second edition, it was this November edition that introduced the world to Alice.\u00a0 For this reason, I think that the 150th anniversary of the publication of Carroll’s classic should be celebrated in November rather than in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This Wednesday<\/span><\/span> (November 11<\/span><\/span>), the Children’s Literature Graduate Orga\"Jan<\/a>nization (CLGO) is presenting a public event that they are calling Alice’s (un)Birthday Party.\u00a0 This event will take place in the Student Union Room 340B from 4:00 to 5:30<\/span><\/span>. \u00a0 Professor Jan Susina, an internationally recognized expert on Carroll’s writings, will deliver a keynote address.\u00a0 Professor Susina is a Professor of English at Illinois State University and the author of The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature.\u00a0 <\/i>Following the keynote address, there will be a panel discussion featuring Professor Susina, Sarah Minslow, and Alan Rauch.\u00a0 Everyone who attends will have an opportunity to participate in a Victorian tea party complete with tea, sandwiches, and scones. \u00a0 I hope to see you there.<\/p>\n

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Kudos<\/b>\u2014 As you know, I like to use my Monday Missives to share news about recent accomplishments by members of our department.\u00a0 Here is the latest news:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Janaka Lewis <\/b>recently presented a paper called “Women Learning Freedom in Post-Reconstruction America” at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

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Lara Vetter<\/b>‘s \u201cModernism and Historical Fiction: The Case of H.D.\u201d was recently published in an essay collection entitled A History of the Modernist Novel (<\/i>Cambridge UP, 2015).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Heather Blain Vorhies<\/b> recently presented “Doing Business Over There: Misunderstanding the Place of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in the Place of Business” at the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference in Tempe, Arizona.
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November 13<\/span><\/span> — Shakespeare in Action is presenting a lecture by Paul Menzer titled “Every Bad Quarto Deserves a Good Theory” on Friday, November 13<\/span><\/span>, at 6:00 pm<\/span><\/span> in Robinson Hall’s Black Box Theater.<\/p>\n

Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 The character Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland <\/i>is based on a real girl whose first name was Alice.\u00a0 Does anybody know the last name of the real Alice?<\/p>\n

Last week’s answer:<\/strong> Steampunk<\/span><\/p>\n

Gears and clockwork figure prominently in a popular fantasy genre that is set in a world in which advanced electronics and digital technology never developed.\u00a0 What is the commonly used term for the fantasy genre?<\/em> <\/i><\/p>\n

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