Crystal B. Lake wins prestigious ACLS award
ASECS Member Crystal B. Lake has been awarded an ACLS Project Development Grant. Her project, “Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century,” recovers the surprising range of crafts, customized commodities, and designed environments that early readers created between 1650 and 1850 that directly reference published poems, plays, novels, and works of nonfiction. These “literary objects” include needlepoint samplers stitched with lines from popular poems, board games inspired by bestsellers, waxwork renditions of fictional characters, magic lantern show based on trending plots, pinprick portraits of favorite authors, and much more. “Reading/Making” documents these objects systematically… Read More »Crystal B. Lake wins prestigious ACLS award