Week 3: Coleridge in 1798

Week 3: Thursday 31st January

Coleridge in 1798: Public Voices, Private Codes
Dr Benjamin Brice, University of Oxford

Dr Brice's recent book with the Oxford Monograph series Coleridge and Scepticism (2007) discussed Coleridge's theory of poetic symbolism and "the book of nature" in relation to natural philosophy and protestant theology.

The seminar starts at 5.15 on Thursday in the Ferrar room, Hertford college.

All welcome .

Week Two -Dr Philip Shaw

Week Two – Thursday 24^th January

'twxit life and death': Byron and the Sublime

Dr Philip Shaw, University of Leicester



Dr Philip Shaw is author of Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002) and The Sublime (London & New York: Routledge, 2006). A further art-historical book, Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art, 1783-1856 is scheduled for publication in 2010.

Hilary term 2008

Hilary Term 2008

Week Two – Thursday 24^th January

'twxit life and death': Byron and the Sublime

Dr Philip Shaw, University of Leicester

Week Three – Thursday 31^st January

Coleridge in 1798: Public Voices, Private Codes

Dr Benjamin Brice, University of Oxford  

Week Four – Thursday 7^th February

The Theatricality of Politics: Caricaturing Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1783-1816

David Francis Taylor, University of Cambridge

Week Five – Thursday 14^th February
Coleridge and 'stylometric' software

Dr Peter Millican, University of Oxford

Week Six – Thursday 21^st February

Coleridge and the ‘sentient brain’

Dr Huw Price

Week Seven – Thursday 28^th February

How to be Irish in the 1790s:

Rewriting Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Reading The History of Ned Evans

Helena Kelly, University of Oxford 

Week Eight – Thursday 6^th March

Hazlitt and 'disinterestedness'

Professor A.C. Grayling, Birkbeck College, University of London

Meetings will be held from 5:15-6:45pm in the Ferrar Room, Hertford College, Oxford. All are welcome to join us for discussion and refreshments

If you are interested in presenting a 30-40 minute paper at the seminar please email: michael.farrell@ccc.ox.ac.uk, georgina.green@hertford.ox.ac.uk, or olivia.murphy@worc.ox.ac.uk

Week eight: Wordsworth and Blake

This week's a double bill at the same bargain price of £0.00:

Week Eight – Thursday 29th November
The Embarrassment of Methodist Enthusiasm in Wordsworth's 'Peter Bell'
Helen Boyle, Open University

Blake and the Virgin Mary
Michael Farrell, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

Meetings will be held from 5:15-6:45pm in the Ferrar Room, Hertford
College.

All are welcome to join us!

Professor Marc Porée: Byron's North-West Passage

Week Seven – Thursday 22nd November, 5.15 Ferrar room, Hertford college.
From Literature to Philosophy: Byron's "North-West Passage" (Don Juan, XIII, 39)
Professor Marc Porée, L'Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle)John Sackheouse "First Communication with the Natives of Prince Regents Bay, as drawn by John Sackheouse and presented to Capt. Ross, Augt. 10, 1818." (Colored aquatint)

Professor Porée's interests are incredibly varied. His main research areas are Romanticism and contemporary British and postcolonial literature. In the field of Romanticism he has written a book about de Quincey and worked on Byron, Keats, and Burns among others. In other areas he's written a book on Salman Rushdie and worked on Kazuo Ishiguro and Graham Swift. He has coedited a collected edition of Robert Louis Stevenson translations for the prestigious Pleiade collection and translated texts by, amongst others, Stevenson and Conrad.
All are welcome!

Week Six – Thursday 15th November

JudWeek Six – Thursday 15th November

“Now is the time to cherish a glowing energy that may rouse into action
every nerve and faculty of the mind”: John Thelwall, Radical Anatomist
Mary Fairclough, University of York

Judith Thompson calls Thelwall “the silenced partner” of Wordsworth and Coleridge. As well as writing poetry and generically experimental prose he was one of the most important and prominent radical leaders, and one of those charged with high treason in 1794. His politics took many forms including, arguably, his contribution to medical debate about the “vital spirits”.


All are welcome to join us for discussion.

Ferrar room, Hertford College 5.15, Thursday 15th November

Week five -Charles Lamb and Colonial Australia

Week Five – Thursday 8th November
'Inauspicious unliterary THIEFLAND': Charles Lamb, Barron Field and
Colonial Australia
Dr David Higgins, University of Leeds

David Higgins is author of Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine: Biography, Celebrity, Politics (Routledge, 2005) and
Frankenstein: Character Studies (Continuum, forthcoming in 2008).