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

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>>Week 7 Thomas Pfau on Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister

Please come along and join us at Oriel's MacGregor Room for a paper entitled:


“Virtually Rational: Play, Teleology, and the Modernity of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister.”


by Prof. Thomas Pfau

>>No Realignment this week. Get your Romantic Fix at 10am

Kate Barush on 'Blake's Illuminated Manuscripts'
10am Thursday 3 June, English Faculty, LT2


Blake printed his poetry in a unique, striking, and beautiful manner, and the experience of his works as artefacts and artistic productions as well as text is crucial to understanding them. This lecture will introduce and explain the methods through which Blake produced his illuminated books and their importance to his mythopoesis, as well as providing the interpretative tools necessary to discuss and analyse Blake's unique composite art. Blake's artistic background and training will be explained, key works examined, and his oppositional iconography and stylistic devices explored. This will be an engaging and valuable session to those interested in Blake and/or illuminated texts.

>>Week 5: Female Crusoes

Carl Thompson from Nottingham Trent University is coming to give a paper called 'Female Crusoes: Tracing a Minor Literary Motif, and its Feminist and Anti-Feminist Implications, across the 18th and early 19th Centuries'


See you there

>>Week 4: Pugin and the Gothic - Rosemary Hill - All Souls, Oxford.

This week Rosemary Hill will give a paper entitled:


"To Stones a Moral Life', Pugin and the Gothic."


This paper will be on Pugin, whose work, Rosemary argues, brought a romantic sensibility, belatedly, to architecture.


All welcome as always.