THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AND ROMANTIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2015
‘Jargon of Men and Things’: Production and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 18 April 2015
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ‘Jargon of Men and Things’: Production and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 18 April 2015
REGISTRATION: 09.00-10.15 Faculty of English, Entrance Hall/Social Space
OPENING WORDS: 10.15-10.30 GR04/05
SESSION 1: 10.30-12.00 PANEL 1: Time, Place, Nostalgia
Room: GR04/05
Chair: Dr. Phillip Connell, Selwyn College Charlotte Saul
‘A Piece of Curiosity’: The Ornamental Hermit and his Eighteenth-Century Hermitage
University of Cambridge
Lucy Hodgetts
‘The old memorial nooks of London and its suburbs’: Literary Heritage and Leigh Hunt's Urban Nostalgia
University of York
Hetty Saunders
About Time Too: Language of the Old and New in Keats's Customary Poems
University of Cambridge
PANEL 2: Reception and Construction
Room: GR03
Chair: Dr. Christopher Tilmouth, Peterhouse College Marcello Cattaneo
Matthew Prior’s Montaigne
University of Cambridge
Aurora Faye Martinez
A Response to Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' in the Haward Manuscript
University of Birmingham
Stephen Basdeo
Robin Hood: Constructing the Outlaw Hero in the Eighteenth Century
Leeds Trinity University
LUNCH: 12.00-13.00 Social Space
SESSION 2: 13.00-14.30 PANEL 3: Consuming Sensation Chair: Dr Sarah Haggarty, Queens’ College Sarah Weston
‘Terrible Limbs’ and ‘Scurf’d’ Skin: Taxidermy, Display, and the Grotesque in William Blake’s Illuminated Books
Room: GR04/05
University of Cambridge
William Tullett
Smelly Things: Producing, Containing and Consuming Perfume in Eighteenth-Century England
King’s College London
Ada Coghen
Languor and Love in Spenser, Thomson, and Keats
University of Cambridge
PANEL 4: Material Readings Chair: Dr Paul Chirico, Fitzwilliam College
Room: GR03
Louise Adams
‘A scheme for embodying permanence’: William Godwin, Reading and Tactility
University of Cambridge
Timothy Gao
‘By this small Book's outside read’: The Miniature Almanac in the Eighteenth Century
University of Oxford
Sabina Akram
Robert Southey's Three Bears: An Alternative Explanation and the Evolution of the Tale
Anglia Ruskin University
TEA & COFFEE BREAK: 14.30-15.00 Social Space
SESSION 3: 15.00-16.30 PANEL 5: Visions of Collection Chair: Dr Ruth Abbott, Lucy Cavendish College
Room: GR04/05
Rees Arnott-Davies
Historical Visibility in the British Museum: The Lethieullier Mummy and its Assemblage
Birkbeck College
Marianne Brooker
On 'Magnificent and Uncommon Staircases': Describing John Soane's House and Museum
University of Cambridge
Anna Torvaldsen
'crooked roads without Improvement': William Blake's Typographic Designs
University College London
PANEL 6: Travelling Materials Chair: Dr Corinna Russell, Emmanuel College
Room: GR03
Maeve DevittTremblay
Polish Nobility on the Grand Tour
University of Cambridge
Madelaine Schurch
Mapping Polar Geography, History, and Imagination in the Search for the Northwest Passage: Samuel Hearne’s A Journey and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
University of Oxford
KEYNOTE SPEECH & CLOSING WORDS: 16.30-17.15 Conference External Respondent: Dr Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter GR04/05
DRINKS RECEPTION: 17.30-19.00 Newnham College MCR, Sidgwick Avenue
DINNER: 19.30-21.30 Sala Thong Restaurant, 35 Newnham Road
To register and in case of any queries, contact the conference committee: english18.graduateconference@gmail.com Phone contact: +44 (0)7792897153