Fall 2015, the Sabbaticalization: whatever days these are

I haven't posted an update in a bit, largely because reality ensued--i.e., doing necessary prep work for next semester's courses.    Ergo, I did the reading calendars for two courses (the third is a repeat) and ordered my books.  Also, I've primarily been reading volume two of the Oxford History of the Novel in English, which is very long, in order to write a review of it, which will be very short.  

However, something did get accomplished: I finished the draft of chapter two, which comes in at slightly over 10000 words.  Woo-hoo! Now on to chapter three.  Three chapters is one more than I planned on when I applied for my sabbatical, so I'm overall pleased with how this is going.  (I am not, however, writing one of the chapters I intended to, because I realized I needed to do some more reading before I could develop my argument properly.)

Have I mentioned that this book is going to be long? (I mean, I do hope it's not going to be as long as the OHNE, but...there was a lot of religious fiction in the nineteenth century.)

 Before I jump into chapter three, though, I'm going to incorporate the comments I received on an article draft from a workshopping session last week; I'd like to send it out sometime before the end of the year.  That's the last non-commissioned project I'll be able to work on for a while, as I've got three articles of various lengths to complete by the end of 2016, plus at least one conference paper.