This Romantic Realignments, we will have the very distinguished Professor Frederick Burwick joining us from UCLA to speak about 'Shakespearean Pantomime: the Dumbshow of Kemble and Siddons'. 


We urge all interested to come along - you do not have to be a Romanticist or an English student! We hope to have a large turnout and welcome Fred in the UK. After the seminar, we will be convening for drinks and continued conversation at a local watering hole and invite all that wish to join us for dinner!


See you all tomorrow, 5:15pm in the English Faculty, Seminar Room A!

Preparatory Reading for this week's Seminar
Thursday 2nd February


'The Keats Brothers' by Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)


In preparation for this seminar there are a few pages of reading from Professor Gigante's latest book, 'The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George' (Harvard UP, 2011). If you are interested in attending and would like to receive the preliminary reading (of no more than about ten pages) please email lucy.kellett@balliol.ox.ac.uk


As usual, everyone is welcome to attend, from Romantic graduates to unRomantic undergraduates!

HILARY TERM 2012 SCHEDULE
Welcome to the real New Year and your resolution to attend as many Romantic-related events as possible! We hope our schedule this term makes that resolution easier to keep... We really look forward to seeing you there!

English Faculty Seminar Room A, Thursdays of odd weeks, 5:15pm


1st Wk - 19th January: 'The "monster in human shape", the "sneaking literary shrimp", and the Piccadilly bookshops', Dr. David Fallon (Oxford University)


3rd Wk - 2nd February: 'The Keats Brothers', Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)
- N.B. Professor Gigante would like attendees to read some passages from her latest book 'The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George' (Havard UP, 2011) as preparation for this more interactive seminar.  We will let you know further details as soon as possible. 


5th Wk - 16th February: 'Shakespearean Pantomime: the Dumbshow of Kemble and Siddons', Professor Fred Burwick (UCLA)


7th Wk - 1st March: 'Wordsworth and the Ecchoing Wye', Fiona Stafford (Oxford University) 

**EXTRA SESSION**: 
Friday 2nd March, 3:30pm, Seminar Room A: 'The Voice of the Sod: Keats's Nightingale from Below', Professor Marshall Brown (University of Washington)

HAPPY NEW (ACADEMIC) YEAR FROM ROMANTIC REALIGNMENTS! Michaelmas 2011

Welcome to the new year at RR! We have an exciting, diverse schedule for Michaelmas 2011, with eminent speakers across a broad range of writers and topics. We hope to see you at as many sessions as possible, whether you know a little or a lot!

1st Wk - Thursday 13th October: '"Grief-Searching Musing": John Clare and the Landscape of Mourning', Dr. Mark Sandy (Durham University)

3rd Wk - Thursday 27th October: 'Scott's Introductions to the Magnum Edition of the Waverley Novels', Professor Claire Lamont (Newcastle University)

5th Wk - Thursday 10th November: 'Pozzy, Bozzy, and some Origins for Romantic Literary Biography', Professor Jon Mee (University of Warwick)

7th Wk - Thursday 24th November: 'The British Inquisition: Terrorist Aesthetics and Visual Culture in the Romantic Period', Professor Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton)

All in Faculty Seminar Room A (formerly Room 11), at 5:15pm. Everyone warmly welcomed!

ROMANTIC REALIGNMENTS, Trinity Term 2011

Thursdays 5:15-6:45pm (Weeks 1, 2, 3, 5 & 7) English Faculty Room 11

All warmly welcome

(Week 1) 5^th May: Prof Diego Saglia (Universita di Parma): ‘The Place/s of the Foreign: European Literatures in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain’

(Week 2) 12^th May: Dr Jennie Wawrzinek (Freie Universität Berlin): ‘Shelley's Critical Tensions: Decreation and Radical Passivity in the Prose Works’

(Week 3) 19^th May: Dr Meiko O'Halloran (University of Newcastle): 'Rewriting the Literary Marketplace: James Hogg's Poetic Mirror (1816)'

(Week 5) 2^nd June: Dr Jon Sachs (Concordia University): '"A great deal of ruin in a nation": Decline and Romantic Culture'

(Week 7) 16^th June: Dr Alan Rawes (University of Manchester): ‘Derrida and Poetic Form: Deconstructing Shelley's “compelling rhyme schemes”’

LAMB AND PRINT CULTURE

CHARLES LAMB SOCIETY DAY CONFERENCE

Swedenborg Hall, 20 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Saturday 27th November 2010.

10.30-11             Coffee
11-12.30             First Panel: Lamb Abroad           

‘Writing Empire: Lamb and the East India Company’
Dr. David Higgins, University of Leeds

‘Imagination and the Traveller: the Psychogeography of Charles Lamb’s essays for the London Magazine’

Dr. Susan Oliver, University of Essex

12.30-2.30             Lunch at local restaurant (participants to make their own arrangements)

2.30-3.30              Graduate Panel

‘“Too much of the boy-man”: Charles Lamb and the Uses of Childishness’

Peter J. Newbon, University of Cambridge

‘“I forlorn do wander”: Introspective melancholy in Lamb's contributions to Sonnets from Various Authors (S.T. Coleridge, ed, 1796)’

Katy Beavers, University of Greenwich

3.30-4                         Tea

4-5.30                         Third Panel: Politics and Poetry

‘Lamb's poems for The Champion’
Dr. John Gardner, Anglia Ruskin University

‘From autograph to print: Lamb's Album Verses, with a few others’

Dr. Samantha Matthews, University of Bristol

ATTENDANCE IS FREE OF CHARGE, BUT REGISTRATION IN ADVANCE WOULD BE APPRECIATED: FOR THIS AND ANY OTHER QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT FELICITY JAMES (fj21