This class will participate in the creation of commonplace books: a favored activity of many nineteenth-century women. Commonplace books most commonly served as repositories for passages of text readers found meaningful and wanted to preserve for posterity. We will retain this function, but also expand upon it: your commonplace entries will ground our class discussion and help us all to track themes and topics that connect and differentiate our course texts. 

What to include? Your name, date, chosen passage/quotation and paragraph of interpretation/analysis and a question this spurs for you. 

How many entries am I required to do? Five throughout the semester; at least one per novel (this means you’ll have one novel where you have two entries).

Access the Q&Q shared doc here. 

(Thanks and credit to Dr Jesse Cordes Selbin for this activity.)  

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