Susanna Moodie and the Gooey Kablooie

[felis_ultharus]

Well, I finally began work on my seminar. I looked up every scholarly article on Margaret Atwood's Journals of Susanna Moodie, in every major scholarly publication that deals with Canadian literature, what libraries they were available at, when those libraries were open, who wrote them, when they were written, how many pages they were, and even browsed a few newspaper reviews of the book.

It took fifteen minutes.

What did grad students do before the invention of the Internet? Did they even have grad school back then? Probably, but I expect the classes were conducted in Latin, and mostly involved reconciling Aristotelian physics with the writings of the Fathers of the Church.

Comments

[montrealais.livejournal.com]

I have much the same thoughts about translating. I don't particularly want to know how they did terminology before the net, but I imagine it involved a buttload of index cards.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Probably a lot of very expensive books. Likely they were more specialized than they are now, as well.

Those are my guesses, anyway.