Seminar Series Spring 2014
Seminar One, Monday 27th January: Class and Correspondence
Seminar Two, Monday 10th February: News from Nowhere
Seminar Three, Monday 10th March: Recovering Romances
Seminar Four, Monday 7th April: Matters of Mind
Seminar Five, Monday 5th May: Civic Sensibilities
- Laura Mair, University of Edinburgh: ‘‘For I shall never forget you’: Happiness and homesickness in the letters of ragged school emigrants, 1850-1870’
- Susan Garrard, University of St. Andrews:‘Strange Places, Strange Self: The Autobiography of Mary Smith as Reconfiguration of Victorian Women’s Travelogue’
Seminar Two, Monday 10th February: News from Nowhere
- Mhari Morrison, University of Edinburgh: 'Singular Suicides', 'Shameful Negligence' and 'Disgraceful Exhibitions': Reading Old Newspapers with Thomas Hardy.
- Lucy Warwick, Oxford Brookes University: ‘Consuming Knowledge: Produce from the Empire in The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge’
Seminar Three, Monday 10th March: Recovering Romances
- Gena McNutt, University of Edinburgh:‘Giving Beowulf to the world: Beowulf in the Nineteenth-century’
- Katie Garner, University College Cork: Charlotte Mary Yonge’s Sir Thomas Thumb and the Rehabilitation of Arthurian Romance
Seminar Four, Monday 7th April: Matters of Mind
- Katherine Inglis, University of Edinburgh: ‘Reading Sylvia’s mind’
- Nicole Bush, Durham University: ‘Mind-Blending: Persistence of Vision Devices and the ‘Right Perception’ in Mid-Victorian Fiction’
Seminar Five, Monday 5th May: Civic Sensibilities
- Anna Feintuck, University of Edinburgh: ‘Managing Identity: the Freedom of the City in late nineteenth-century Edinburgh’
- Graeme Thompson, University of Oxford: '"The Conquest of Liberty": Britishness, Liberalism and Empire in the Early Political Thought of Sir Wilfred Laurier, 1877-1897'
Image Credit: Poster promoting reading by Dickens in Nottingham, 1869. Wikimedia Commons.