Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768) Northumberland House (1752)
Dear friends,
I’ve had been asked to write an essay on my experiences teaching the 18th century at the two OLLIs (at American University and at George Mason University) where I now also take courses, and when I handed that in, decided it would be good idea if there were some one spot from which someone could reach my blogs on teaching Tom Jones and The Enlightenment: At Risk? there is one for Tom Jones, but not for this latter course, so I’m creating yet another handy list.
On teaching Voltaire’s Candide — & Bernstein’s musical, Candide:
A contemporary and modern illustration for Candide
On teaching Diderot’s La Religieuse — and 2 film adaptations
Suzanne Simonin after harsh punishment thrown into a dungeon (2013 La Religieuse, Pauline Etienne)
We did consider the analogies between the trauma inflicted on the Nun from her institution’s practices and modern traumas inflicted from modern prisons.
https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/on-teaching-diderots-la-religieuse-aka-the-nun/
On teaching Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands, & his other writings:
Hunter, Colin (1841-1904); Good-Night to Skye (1895)
The trip
https://reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/on-teaching-samuel-johnson/
Marie-Jeanne Phlippon, Madame Roland (1754-93): a great souled author of her own life
The only truly decent portrait of Madame Roland we have
Hubert Robert imagining the demolition of the Bastille — one wishes all such prisons had gone the way of this one
I tell far more about the two OLLIs (history, as pedagogical institutions) than I have elsewhere
Ellen
Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two 
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