Eighteenth-Century Lit people out there, do any of you know of chapter heads/summaries written in first person? Like this:

Yes, 19th c. novels have beautiful descriptions of bucolic settings and complicated inner monologues about love and life, but 18th c. novels have complicated monologues about what to call mulled wine with eggs mixed in.

A month ago I complained to my students about how "utilise" is the worst word in existence, which must have been particularly memorable because in my last tutorial one of them jokingly promised to not use it in their last assessment as an act of kindness to me.

I started a words-per-day requirement for writing my thesis about a year ago. It worked to get me motivated to hit 500 words a day, but I realised today that it's morphed into this quasi-capitalist mindset where I'm measuring my worth by how many words I can hit before 3pm. Oof.

Academic Twitter is OK, but Academic Reddit is definitely the place to be.

Please only refer to me by my full titles

Absolutely obsessed with finding out that Alexander Pope wrote in The Guardian in 1713 about starting his own "Club for Little Men" who are "sworn to Dare to be Short," which then spurred and angry tall guy to miss the joke and create his own tall guy club.

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Applying for minimum wage, "unskilled" jobs as someone in their 30s is incredibly depressing, until Seek makes the claim that I would be a "strong applicant" for "Axe Throwing Coach".

academics, as a group, are the result of selection processes that reward both rule-following and individualism, which are the worst two traits for collective action

Twitter is full of bad hot takes, so mine is that "Seinfeld" is plagiarised from Swift's "A Tale of a Tub" because right at the end the author-character goes "I am now trying an experiment very frequent among modern authors, which is to write upon nothing[.]"

The eighteenth century had the best book/essay/pamphlet titles including this one that I've now decided is my life motto:

Wednesdays are for two hours of shrimplicity.

I think this is possibly the strongest opening to a novel that ever existed. Also, the phrase "devote to Hymen" is incredible.

Richard Allestree from "Government of the Tongue" (1667) explaining the process of laughing at bucket hats to wearing bucket hats a few years later.

Any hot tips on how to not feel like garbage when the reviewer comments on your article are "This would be better if you changed literally everything about it"?

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