I've printed out the revised reports as I found them. Not all were posted in the right place (that is, as replies to the original report), but I think I've found them all. Also, not all were revised to fit the format for these -- that is, to have the author's name in the first line, and the citation of the work (or works) reported in the next line. I've reformatted them in the printouts, so that people can work with them efficiently.

Generating some questions

I've set up some groups, and I'll give each group a set of reports to work from.  Here are the groups:

On the basis of a reading of the reports you have (your own will not be among them), here's a task: generate a page of questions. They can be about the eighteenth century, about scholarship and criticism on the eighteenth century, or whatever you see as relevant. The only rule is that they have to be questions to which you don't know the answer, and whose answer might, in some way, advance our understanding of this period and its literature. Most of the questions will arise out of your reading, but they don't all have to.  As an example, looking in reports at random, here are a couple that occur to me:

• "Did the fact that colonies were popping up around the world have consequences for writing in the period?"
• "Were diaries and diarists important? Who were some?"
• "Who was Hobbes and how were his ideas so important?"
• "What books are thought to be the first 'novels'?"