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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Jane/Jane
The latest Tarzan Jane was based partly on . . . Jane Goodall!
(Thanks to A. for the link.)
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About Me
Jenny Davidson
I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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A few pieces
A snippet of the style book
The missing notes for chapter six
A Magic Circle playlist
My daily read (Chronicle of Higher Ed, June 2012)
"Guided by the Lit" (Bookforum, summer 2011)
"Species of Spaces" (The Believer, Aug. 2006)
"The Other Amazon" (Clarkesworld, Dec. 2006)
Books
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences
Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
(read the introduction
here
)
Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
The Magic Circle
Invisible Things
The Explosionist
Heredity
My other blogs
Triaspirational
The Explosionist
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