Michaelmas Term 2008

Romantic Realignments meets every Thursday of Full Term in the Ferrar Room of Hertford College, from 5:15-6:45pm. All are very welcome.

Week 1 – Thursday 16th October

‘The Cult of the Duke of Wellington: From Romantic Hero to Upright Victorian’
Belinda Beaton (St Peter’s College, Oxford)

Week 2 – Thursday 23rd October

‘Shelley, Said and Secularism’
Professor Colin Jager (Rutgers University)

Week 3 – Thursday 30th October

‘Charles Lamb and the Alchemy of the Streets’
Dr Gregory Dart (University College, London)

Week 4 – Thursday 6th November

'Edmund Burke and the Epicurean Sublime'
Dr Paddy Bullard (St Catherine's College, Oxford)

Week 5 – Thursday 13th November

'Arresting the Peasant: John Clare and satire'
Dr Simon Kövesi (Oxford Brookes University)

Week 6 – Thursday 20th November

‘"With us, the two sexes associate together": philosophical history, the Gothic, and British Orientalisms’
Dr James Watt (University of York)

Week 7 – Thursday 27th November

‘The Byron that People Saw’
William St Clair (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Week 8 – Thursday 4th December

‘"Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth": Byron's Poetics of Conflict’
Maddy Callaghan (Durham University)

‘Byron, Auden and "the infinite I AM"’
Anna Camilleri (Balliol College, Oxford)