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English Language and Literature

Adrianne Wadewitz

Selected Works

2011

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The Abcs Of Sensibility: The Literacy Of Feeling, Adrianne Wadewitz May 2011

The Abcs Of Sensibility: The Literacy Of Feeling, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

No abstract provided.


Wiki-Writing: Teaching With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz Apr 2011

Wiki-Writing: Teaching With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

In this half-day workshop, we would like to introduce participants to the variety of ways Wikipedia can be used in the classroom. Wikis of all sorts have become increasingly powerful tools to teach writing at the college level and we would like to help participants envisage a wide scope of writing assignments using Wikipedia—assignments that emphasize traditional writing and research skills across the disciplines as well as the importance of newer skills such as media and technological literacy. Among the topics we will cover are: writing for a global readership; collaborative writing; the assessment of sources; the ambiguity between fact-based …


‘Spare The Sympathy, Spoil The Child:’ Sensibility, Selfhood, And The Maturing Reader, 1775-1815, Adrianne Wadewitz Mar 2011

‘Spare The Sympathy, Spoil The Child:’ Sensibility, Selfhood, And The Maturing Reader, 1775-1815, Adrianne Wadewitz

Adrianne Wadewitz

Surveying the archive of late eighteenth-century children's literature, this dissertation argues that children's authors constructed a version of subjectivity based in the passions. Challenging the dominant Lockean model, these writers drew on Rousseau's theory of education and the discourse of sensibility to construct a “sympathetic self.” Children's writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, and Maria Edgeworth highlighted the role of pain and suffering in the creation of the self; in so doing, they reimagined the discourse of sensibility, promoting a selfhood that was collective, benevolent, and imaginative. Significantly, this “sympathetic self” was available to both sexes …


Wiki-Hacking: Opening Up The Academy With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz, Anne Ellen Geller, Jon Beasley-Murray Dec 2010

Wiki-Hacking: Opening Up The Academy With Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz, Anne Ellen Geller, Jon Beasley-Murray

Adrianne Wadewitz

No abstract provided.