Comments on: The gentleman doth protest too much http://pastispresent.org/2010/fellowsfinds/the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed the past is our present to you from the American Antiquarian Society Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:05:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Elizabeth Watts Pope http://pastispresent.org/2010/fellowsfinds/the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Elizabeth Watts Pope Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:27:25 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=851#comment-415 Mr. Lincoln will be happy to learn that more books like these have turned up. They are listed online in the <em><a href="http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Bibliographies/RisqueLit.pdf" rel="nofollow">Bibliography of Risque Literature Published in America Before 1877</a></em> by AAS's president emeritus, Marcus A. McCorison. Mr. Lincoln will be happy to learn that more books like these have turned up. They are listed online in the Bibliography of Risque Literature Published in America Before 1877 by AAS’s president emeritus, Marcus A. McCorison.

]]> By: pleun bouricius http://pastispresent.org/2010/fellowsfinds/the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much/comment-page-1/#comment-414 pleun bouricius Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:46:28 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=851#comment-414 These books were made for walking.... when I was writing my dissertation, a friend in comparative literature shared with me a rare nineteenth-century reproduction of an extremely explicit and rare seventeenth-century Dutch work. He could for some reason not get the library to put it in the X-rated cage, and a year later it was gone. Lincoln was there? These books were made for walking…. when I was writing my dissertation, a friend in comparative literature shared with me a rare nineteenth-century reproduction of an extremely explicit and rare seventeenth-century Dutch work. He could for some reason not get the library to put it in the X-rated cage, and a year later it was gone. Lincoln was there?

]]> By: J. L. Bell http://pastispresent.org/2010/fellowsfinds/the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much/comment-page-1/#comment-413 J. L. Bell Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:44:47 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=851#comment-413 Yes, I borrowed the society's dirty books, took them to my room, put them in my drawer, and got undressed—but it's not what that might look like! No, I wanted to get rid of those books forever! And now they <i>are</i> gone, though I have no evidence for their being destroyed or explanation of where they went. But the society <i>certainly</i> shouldn't send anyone to my house to look for them! Because they're not here. They've disappeared. I can assure the society that I'm terribly sorry, and fully dressed. Your friend, William Lincoln P.S. Please let me know if any more books like these turn up. Yes, I borrowed the society’s dirty books, took them to my room, put them in my drawer, and got undressed—but it’s not what that might look like!

No, I wanted to get rid of those books forever! And now they are gone, though I have no evidence for their being destroyed or explanation of where they went.

But the society certainly shouldn’t send anyone to my house to look for them! Because they’re not here. They’ve disappeared. I can assure the society that I’m terribly sorry, and fully dressed.

Your friend,
William Lincoln

P.S. Please let me know if any more books like these turn up.

]]> By: Diann Benti http://pastispresent.org/2010/fellowsfinds/the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much/comment-page-1/#comment-411 Diann Benti Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:34:31 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=851#comment-411 What a cool coincidence Jonathan. Thanks for sharing it! What a cool coincidence Jonathan. Thanks for sharing it!

]]> By: Jonathan S. http://pastispresent.org/2010/fellowsfinds/the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Jonathan S. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:29:27 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=851#comment-410 Great find. Joyce alludes to de Kock in Ulysses. The joy I found in tracking down and interpreting Joyce's allusions is one of the reasons I began to think about graduate school! http://books.google.com/books?id=LoKjFMAhNI0C&lpg=PA56&ots=C8L8_YniH_&dq=james%20joyce%20de%20kock&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=&f=false Great find. Joyce alludes to de Kock in Ulysses. The joy I found in tracking down and interpreting Joyce’s allusions is one of the reasons I began to think about graduate school!

http://books.google.com/books?id=LoKjFMAhNI0C&lpg=PA56&ots=C8L8_YniH_&dq=james%20joyce%20de%20kock&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=&f=false

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