'Jargon of Men and Things' Conference Programme 2015

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