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[chocolatepot]

You can read my thread starting here! Let's see if an embed will work:

1 #UPMTC One of the most popular images today of the Victorian woman is of her being laced by a maid as she clings to the bedpost – the perfect representation of repression. I’m exploring how this trope was deliberately used to distance “modern” mores from the past! pic.twitter.com/jGU3qdy2Iw

— Cassidy Percoco (@mimicofmodes) January 12, 2018

People seemed to enjoy it, and when I read it through while posting I was very satisfied (though now I'm noticing what an incredible number of quotation marks I've used). I was concerned that because I don't have a long-term research project to share findings from, my presentation wouldn't be quite up to snuff and wouldn't fit with the others, but I think it does. Going to figure out how to make it work on Tumblr tomorrow, I think they'll like it. And I did feel significantly better afterward, though that was preceded by some really intense bad feelings just before I started posting.

But then, I have kind of been long-term researching this in dribs and drabs, so. Speaking of which, GBooks finally got through my latest request, opening up the full text of the 1918 Some Aspects of the Victorian Age, which I need for my Victorianism research. (Does anyone else request public domain books that are only in snippet view/preview be opened up to full view, I wonder? I always write in the "reason for query" field in a chatty way because I suspect it's only me.)

Comments

[lavinia]

Great slack thread! I linked it to my slack group.

I didn't even know you could request public domain books on Google Books to be opened up for full view!

[chocolatepot]

Thank you!

Yes! I noticed when I was working on a blog post about 18th century fiction, where I of course wanted to link to as many works as possible, that GBooks has a lot of stuff in the public domain that's oddly restricted, and when you click the "why is this book not available for full view?" link you just get general information about books being in copyright. So I used the regular feedback form to send a question asking about why this book wasn't available, because it seemed like it should be. And then I did it for twenty more books as I came across them! And now there is a drop-down option in the feedback form for "I think this book is in the public domain but it's not available". One time, I think, I got the response that they only had a record of the book, they didn't have a PDF of the text itself, but every other time I get an email a couple of weeks later with "you were right, here's a link to the full text."

[mrs_maupin]

Ooooh that's really good to know ! thank you !
BTW, I read your Twitter thread and found it really, rally interesting.

[mala_14]

I thought yours fit in really well with the few others I looked at. Also, I thought you did an excellent job on making your point in such a concise manner, what with the limits of Twitter.

[chocolatepot]

Thanks! I worked on it in GDocs for a week or two, tweaking it to work properly within the 280 character limit. :D