CurrerBell's Time Currents for 2017

First Quarter - Renaissance/16th Century (2)
January - First Encounters (4)
February - Storico Italia (2)
March - Meeting Madness (2)

Second Quarter - 17th Century (3)
April - It's a Family Affair (2)
May - Oh What a State of Affairs (5)
June - Fight for Your Rights (1)

Third Quarter - 18th Century (2)
July - Viva La Revolución! (3)
August - Art (3)
September - Historically Significant Event (1)

Fourth Quarter - Napoleonic Era (1)
October - Gothic Reads (7)
November - Noir or Darkness (3)
December - Fractured Fairy Tales (4)

First Quarter - 16th Century

Jan 2 — Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper in Mark Twain: Historical Romances (Library of America)
Feb 28 — John Leland and Alan Baragona, Shakespeare's Prop Room: An Inventory

January - First Encounters

Jan 11 — James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales I; The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie (Library of America)
Jan 26 — The Leatherstocking Tales, Vol. 2: The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer (Library of America)
Jan 30 — Typee and Omoo, from Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)
Feb 1 — Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, The Journals of Lewis and Clark

February - Storico Italia

Feb 12 – Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (Norton Critical Edition)
Feb 26 – Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady in Henry James: Novels 1881-1886 (Library of America)
Feb 28 – supplementary materials in The Portrait of a Lady (Norton Critical, 1st ed 1975)

March - Meeting Madness

Mar 13 - The Brontës: A Life in Letters (ed. Juliet Barker)
Mar 28 - Maria Frawley, English Authors Series: Anne Brontë

Second Quarter - 17th Century

May 31 - Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock in Willa Cather: Later Novels
Jun 27 - John Milton, Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Edition), 2d ed & 3d ed
Jun 29 - John Milton, Milton's Sonnets: The Texts with an Introduction and Commentary

April - It's a Family Affair

Apr 8 - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Apr 27 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House The First Five Novels (BN Classics Edition) (The Little House on the Prairie)

May - Oh What a State of Affairs!

May 9 - The Maine Reader: The Down East Experience, 1614 to the Present (ed. Charles and Samuella Shain)
May 10 - Mary Ellen Chase, A Goodly Fellowship
May 25 - Paula Blanchard, Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work
May 28 - Lura Beam, A Maine Hamlet
May 30 - Sarah Orne Jewett, Deephaven, in Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels and Stories

June - Fight for Your Rights

Jun 3 - Leslie Feinberg, Drag King Dreams
Jun 24 - Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (Norton Critical Edition)

Third Quarter - 18th Century

Aug 23 - James Anderson Winn, Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts (also qualifies under August topic read)
Sep 12 - David McCollough, John Adams

July - Viva La Revolución!

Jul 4 - Anna Beer, Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot
Jul 16 - John Milton, Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical)
Jul 25 - Gordon Campbell, John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought

August - Art

Aug 15 - Patti Smith, Just Kids
Aug 23 - James Anderson Winn, Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts (also qualifies under 3rd quarter period read)
Aug 26 - Colm Tóibín et al, Henry James and American Painting

September - Historically Significant Event

Sep 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Fourth Quarter - Napoleonic Era

Oct 23 ... Margaret Kennedy, Troy Chimneys

October - Gothic

Oct 3 ... Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Annotated Secret Garden
Oct 7 ... Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (Norton Critical Edition)
Oct 11 ... Charis Cotter, The Painting
Oct 13 ... American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (Library of America, ed Peter Straub) 750pp
Oct 26 ... Sarah Orne Jewett, Lady Ferry and Other Uncanny People
Oct 27 ... Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel
Oct 31 ... John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick

November - Noir or Darkness

Nov 7 ... Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories
Nov 14 ... Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
Nov 24 ... Jim Thompson, Recoil

Decenber – Fractured Fairy Tales

Dec 4 ... Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
Dec 6 ... Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns
Dec 27 ... Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood
Dec 30 ... Virginia Hamilton, The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl