https://mla.hcommons.org/members/gholmes4a/activity/ Activity feed for Gerard Holmes. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b8161966c37539f50de44b8c597d07df https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1944387/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:22:56 -0500 0 eb96094d29e95fc237ce1ccf33779f86 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1943128/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:48:05 -0500 0 bf7da0182bfa81c37adf430ec231536d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1914485/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:04:56 -0400 0 a6277b9aa5dbd407188b3dc1c87b3def https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1913835/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:28:46 -0400 0 72a819b740cb7ffae3673662b0b1e678 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1908659/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:55:27 -0500 0 a2ae15e63da913f89134398a6d1b7021 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1907472/ Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:15:12 -0500 0 67de3557e005b68e52dc2864b33df434 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902141/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:12:42 -0400 0 ac38d188d50ae1b97af81c13ce9ec3ef https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875618/ Sat, 10 Feb 2024 18:57:49 -0500 0 ee296a2e73071818e0a6f659be694d89 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1854809/ Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:43:08 -0400 0 8e3834b0c0f3b0b16443bf1777664640 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1820307/ Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:06:34 -0500 0 46535e5419265d55838add6c2b930320 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816831/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:21:59 -0400 0 3d67f588c60eed9d565127bad1375204 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776226/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:21:03 -0400 In spring 2020, I finished my dissertation, on nineteenth-century American literature and improvisation, and decided to read for pleasure for a while. I had time in my hands, because – thanks to COVID – there were no jobs available. I’d set aside many books and essays while writing the dissertation. Among these were George Sand’s novels Consuelo…[Read more]

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]]> 0 7ad45d6b3eb9b46e9073822bad51a63e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1724343/ Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:09:58 -0500 0 fcb760af13dd612650647bcabe52dc88 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717399/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:53:09 -0500 0 257e63d63fb5c3093d21b904289403dd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717027/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:01:38 -0500 0 a6864aa52d6343cadf50403f2f34852c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716928/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:43:53 -0500 0 8b00caaa97cb79ba6366246ad128848e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692436/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 19:41:48 -0400 0 5d6b8a1186518f3adecf99187806f07d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1692435/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 19:37:26 -0400 Although Emily Dickinson’s papers were preserved because of her place in literary history, not her musical knowledge, her engagement with music provides an opportunity to consider pre-twentieth-century fandom. New technologies and established social networks enabled fandom for a young rural woman. For this population more than male and urban a…[Read more]

]]> 0 53fc28bd519d077e366e2233fb22e78b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688319/ Sat, 23 May 2020 21:47:20 -0400 0 f4f885c8171ce8780a3dc004a679de83 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688318/ Sat, 23 May 2020 21:46:20 -0400 0 b4e975e891e80490642b105b9fdb614b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687636/ Mon, 18 May 2020 12:52:19 -0400 I posted this as a Word document to make it easy to to adapt and use however you see fit.

]]> 0 6f9534d633a2c3d03ca3da4931447472 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1687587/ Sun, 17 May 2020 15:46:18 -0400 0 de8e61029becdddece0ceb77df3c415a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683567/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:23:50 -0400 Carlton Lowenberg’s Musicians Wrestle Everywhere lists “Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart?” (1896) as the earliest musical adaptation of Dickinson’s poetry. Yet the song’s composer, Etta Parker, was performing it two years earlier. Also in 1894, a well-known German-British composer, Jacques Blumenthal, issued two Dickinson settings…[Read more]

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