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Got an email that sent me to the acceptance on uApply for the MA at McGill!!! 

Got an email that sent me to the acceptance on uApply for the MA at McGill!!! 

Congratulations!!

(Inspired from the general post on the board about preparatory reading lists): Early modern folks, what are you reading to prepare over the summer? I'm nervous that I have gaps I'm not aware of and would love to know if anyone else has the same worry and what you're doing about it.
Right now, to make sure I've got a solid foundation in early modern medicine/medical rhetoric/early modern science (my primary interests), my reading goals include:
Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (currently reading) Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller Ben Johnson's The Alchemist Bacon's Advancement of Learning Anything on the subject by Stephen Pender Lucinda M. Beier's  Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in EM England Kerwin's Beyond the Body: The Boundariesof Medicine and English Ren. Drama Vaught's Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and EM Engand It's laughably ambitious to hope that I will get through all of this before fall, what with kids, a full time job, selling our house, moving, but I'm just going to do my best.
But, more generally, what works do you consider "required reading" before you start your respective programs? 

Ok I am going to geek out here and attempt to do this question justice. I want to give a few caveats first: many time periods have different names depending on the region (ie. Victorian vs. 19th century American); larger eras of study include a multiplicity of subdivisions; these eras are largely based on canonical interpretation of literature, so many more recent scholars push against these dates of separation between eras and the idea that these eras are typically defined by British and American literature. Also, I am going to define these eras in the way that English scholars typically do, but I think Comp Lit people define the eras slightly differently, because many important literary trends and eras did not start in English. So please, please, please correct me if I am spreading any misinformation.
Midieval Lit: This follows historically what is considered Midieval, so largely the fall of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance. In English, this includes Anglo Saxon literature (from about 500-1066) and Middle English (1066-circa 1500)
Early Modern Lit: This is literature from the Renaissance, Reformation, and Neoclassical eras (circa 1500-circa 1800).
Romanticism: Depending on who you consider the first Romanticists to be, this overlaps with the later Early Modern and Early Victorian Eras. (late 1700s to mid 1800s), this era includes the beginning of Gothic Lit
Victorian Literature: This is literature written during Queen Victoria's rule (1837-1901). This era contains realism, a significant amount of social satire and writing for social reforem, scientific writing, early nature writing and later Romanticism, etc. 
Modernism: This is an era that is tightly defined by 1901-1945, but more loosely encapsulates certain styles from the 1890s to 1950s. Maybe I am biased, because this is my era of study, but it seems an era more defined by certain literary and artistic movements than the time, though it most certainly contains the interwar time.
Postmodernism: This is a term used in so many different ways, it is largely believed to be unhelpful. Some theorists defined it as 1945 to the fall of the Soviet Union. Other people call everything since 1945 postmodern. There is a significant trend to discuss more recent literature in thematic categories instead of by time (ie. Post-colonialism)
Contemporary Lit: This is literature written now-ish. 
I hope this helped a little bit. There are undoubtedly gaps in this timeline, and I hope others will help fill them in (: 

I just got accepted to U of T, PhD program!

I GOT AN ACCEPTANCE FROM UBC!!!!! (Masters)

and so begins the start of a very long week! Good luck to everyone... !

Congratulations!!! Awesome news! 

Accepted into the MA at British Columbia  

Accepted into the MA at British Columbia  

Congratulations!!

Congratulations!! I hope your username is sincere, because I remember seeing the words "most snow on earth" in a news report this year. 

Accepted into the MA at British Columbia  

CONGRATS!!!!

In at UBC for MA!

I GOT AN ACCEPTANCE FROM UBC!!!!! (Masters)

I GOT AN ACCEPTANCE FROM UBC!!!!! (Masters)

@RainDays and @writethebeats Good luck to both of you!

@RainDays and @writethebeats Good luck to both of you!

@RainDays @BlessMeWithSnow also I am v grateful for this mini McGill support group we have going on here.

I am SO GRATEFUL. THANK GOODNESS I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE RIGHT NOW. 
Also I feel you about the research stress. I feel like I can't start until I know the results of this app!

Also why the heck are they releasing a bunch of rejections? Maybe acceptances have already been made....?  *just casually driving myself crazy at work this morning, no big deal*

No love for me from McGill today. It’s okay, though, because it would have been only for the ego boost. I couldn’t find anyone there who would be a great fit for my proposal BUT I love Montreal! Toronto and Western are killing me. Especially Toronto. Good luck to anyone else going for McGill!!! 
 
Oh! I did get accepted to Birmingham. Need money now!

I was thinking the same thing. Every email I receive today will cause a minor heart tremor.