Teaching Wollstonecraft is truly wild right now

Watching this made me finally understand why Swift yelled about wool so much. Can someone commune with his ghost and get him to write another modest proposal?

I am truly in awe of what my students come up with for response papers. The last time I taught Burke and Paine, I got an ASPCA style Burkean ad: “End the Revolution. Save Marie Antoinette.” This year I got a Paine infomercial: “1800NOKINGS.” #c18 satire lives.

When you learn how to spell “Houyhnhnm” without peeking, they give you a PhD in eighteenth-century studies.

I just officially left the other place so, hi new followers! I’m writing a literary history of structural sexism organized around representations of women’s political accessorizing in the long 18th century.

Just cackling at this cover photo for Mary Wollstonecraft’s first book at my public library.

Asking students to write their own parody of Pamela continues to be the best assignment ever. One of my students did a parody in the form of a Mr B AITA post and the student made me one of the people who replied. Like what can I say? Yes I would reply and complain it’s not realistic.

In my #18thc class today, I mentioned the masquerade in Pamela 2 because one of my students asked what women could do besides Pamela’s list of wifely duties, and then in a moment of inspiration, I said it’s 2 Pamela 2 furious and I almost started crying we were laughing so hard.

The fun thing about the lecture I’m about to give on Aristotle’s poetics is it secretly just a lecture about Clarissa.

Happy Kylie’s new album to all who celebrate

Lol #c18th friends we do not talk enough about the time Burke, before becoming a monarchy apologist, compared George III to Milton’s Satan and claimed he was “hurled from his throne” during the Regency crisis.

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Okay, I've made a proto type for us to work with using #18thc or #c18th -- please help test and spread the word https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aigekljdycmfs5m76gioxjbs/feed/18thC

This week I have decided I look like Charlie Kelly when close reading poetry and Paris Gellar when close reading novels

“Hey, the main Barbie was white, so no complaints here.”

I am 100% using this the next time I have to explain coverture and the law of necessaries to students

As requested @kathylubey.bsky.social Her face is smol; her muff is not. From Such Things Are (1787) @ the LWL.