https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/ecfriedman/activity/ Activity feed for Emily Friedman. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:39:58 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5b65f330aaf17d4634312fe3446f9ab3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874244/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:15:15 +0000 Using the popular adoption of “fanfiction” as it applies to eighteenth-century fiction, this essay calls for a closer attention to terminology from the established field of fan studies. By doing so, we may be able to better understand our own period’s relationship to creative output, the commercial print marketplace, and the making of celebrity.

]]> 0 84634af0c75837cfa940a14e841dc6a7 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855713/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:06:59 +0000 Revised (but still draft) version of the 2023 version of Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen, a course that has students do in-depth analysis of tabletop roleplaying games through extended play, close reading of rule systems, and analysis of actual play.

]]> 0 ab3e86b952297645878f1f2a306bb51b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855650/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:53:41 +0000 Revised (but still draft) version of the 2023 version of Technology, Literacy, & Culture: Narrative Play: Storytelling Games at Home & On Screen, a course that has students do in-depth analysis of tabletop roleplaying games through extended play, close reading of rule systems, and analysis of actual play.

]]> 0 7f59ac5be7358ea7598268ec70daf062 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768611/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:32:01 +0000 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 2742116c59d2b4063af4d9e41661c962 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768610/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:30:42 +0000 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 44cbe33e59dd204377a6693cf54233be https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768609/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 02:29:39 +0000 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e19f4419d70ae100c37e71505ade7e9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1768597/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:53:35 +0000 In the fall of 2019 I taught my eighteenth-century novel course as an exercise in slow reading, taking a tactic I had used before: putting a canonical work of fiction into the context of the other voices in the literary marketplace, and the circumstances of its making. For such a course, Tristram Shandy is an ideal central text. It was published…[Read more]

]]> 0 477c746870d75f9c4357407f937a1c31 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1760795/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:25:31 +0000 We are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the 10th anniversaries of Twitch and Itch.io, and the ninth generation of video game consoles. The most successful TV/film Kickstarter of all time funded the animated series for D&D livestream Critical Role. Game Studies has existed as an interdisciplinary field for over three…[Read more]

]]> 0 17fcd7dff16062be455040cd3ea689cf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760733/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:50:48 +0000 We are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, the 10th anniversaries of Twitch and Itch.io, and the ninth generation of video game consoles. The most successful TV/film Kickstarter of all time funded the animated series for D&D livestream Critical Role. Game Studies has existed as an interdisciplinary field for over three…[Read more]

]]> 0 c98137b72dca7919ec1ff4809787069c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1751086/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:09:50 +0000 Syllabus for a upper-level English course focused on roleplaying games. Features active learning classroom, contract grading, and student-led midsemester readings. (This was the document students received on the first day, and has already changed. You can follow my “campaign diary” recapping discussions at…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f5337aceb8bfc21b34f306764678301 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740172/ Mon, 31 May 2021 16:14:22 +0000 This afterword discusses the most important, most under-rewarded, and most unsexy aspect of data visualization: the production and use of reliable underlying data. Starting from the premise that visualizations are only as good as their underlying evidentiary base, Freidman addresses the contributions of digital projects that have laid the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2225c4a794a90a915151064e1ab83519 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1706908/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:45:54 +0000 Tristram Shandy itself was at the forefront of technological innovations, both as copyright protection and as bravura performance. What John Mullan has called the “stuff” of Tristram Shandy are among the most accessible ways into the text.
Of these techniques, marbling is one of the easier (and more pleasurable) techniques to introduce into the…[Read more]

]]> 0 17208b1a50d710727a945028e9b6f14c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705088/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:33:02 +0000 Like Catherine Morland, we all dream of discovering that a manuscript tucked away in an archive, among dusty boxes in an attic, or in a mysterious chest in our guest room is really a long-forgotten work by a beloved author. This is the story of a collector who thought he had done just that – and a scholar who almost believed it. Fair warning: t…[Read more]

]]> 0 322fda6493e14bcd696c98cdee024f88 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1705086/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:16:01 +0000 For Johnson, the “nose of the mind” can be understood as closely connected to a notion of the mind’s nose—in other words, the osmology or scent-connotations insofar as we can recover them. As I have argued elsewhere, the level to which that ambition is achievable is low. That said, in this essay I explore a few ways we can examine the work of…[Read more]

]]> 0 afb91fffd1bd9c643a36870bec9c393e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703261/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:15:11 +0000 Jane Austen’s Sanditon (begun 1807) is something of a mystery for Austen scholars. Since its first description in 1871 and its publication in 1925, Austen’s incomplete final novel fragment has inspired innumerable essays speculating about Austen’s intentions and plans, and countless continuations that attempt to provide a plot on top of Austen’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 878d3abb729f841f3f7670c28408bf97 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703256/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:47:57 +0000 Between 1776 and 1800 — at the end of Garrick’s reign at Drury and the rise of Edmund Kean — the shape of Europe, the role of women in the public sphere, and even the size of London’s patent theatres underwent renovation and reconstitution. The results often wore familiar faces, even as meaning was changed by new contexts and editorial f…[Read more]

]]> 0 383e5898be2ae5876a0cb41ea7f9120b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703252/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:36:01 +0000 Many innovations in Samuel Richardson’s final novel, Sir Charles Grandison, set it apart. I argue that the ways in which Richardson innovated in the final volume in particular altered his attitude toward closure. Richardson carried this modified way of thinking into the work of his late life, as self-editor and anthologizer. Grandison is a vital…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a476531aad4bf23b448cd5e32d94f2c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703250/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:25:51 +0000 This essay is part of a larger project that investigates the ways in which Burney’s endings (in her novels, plays, and life-writing) create a sense (or non-sense) of an ending. Here I consider Burney’s final novel, The Wanderer, in its place as Burney’s final fictional ending. In my reading of Burney’s novel-writing career, The Wanderer is at t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e819e9c765f7e37c53dab558f56773c1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703246/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:17:29 +0000 Sarah Fielding promoted rational reading practices through techniques that often differed from those used in the mid-eighteenth-century novel, particularly the contrary techniques employed by Samuel Richardson and her brother, Henry Fielding. Examining Fielding’s Remarks on Clarissa and her co-authored “dramatic fable” The Cry, this essay argue…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f0e52bc546964cee203039e5c0a5805 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703243/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:59:18 +0000 From Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2010.

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