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).

Francis Jeffrey (editor of Ed review) in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus

Week Four – Thursday 1st November
Francis Jeffrey in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
Dr Will Christie, University of Sydney

Carlyle called Francis Jeffrey the greatest literary critic of his time and a "Scotch Voltaire". Dr Christie will be talking about Carlyle's representation of Francis Jeffrey, founder and editor of the Edinburgh review. Carlyle met and formed a friendship with Jeffrey during the lean-years spent in Scotland from 1826. His quasi-autobiographical Shandean parody of English empiricism, Sartor Resartus, was written in 1831 whilst living in Scotland before the move to London in 1834.
Dr Will Christie is author of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life (Basingstoke, Hants, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). His current projects include:

• A study of the Edinburgh Review in early nineteenth-century British culture and society
• The life and correspondence of Francis Jeffrey and Thomas Carlyle
• 'Eating Their Words': a study of literary influence
• A literary biography of Dylan Thomas

All are more than welcome to join us for discussion in the Ferrar room, Hertford College, at 5.15 on Thursday of 4th week (1st November).

Week Three- 25th October

Professor John Whale, University of Leeds
"Exploring Romantic Period Masculinities"
Professor John Whale is author of Imagination Under Pressure: Politics, Aesthetics, and Utility 1789-1832 (CUP 2000) , John Keats (Palgrave 2005), and Thomas De Quincey’s Reluctant Autobiography (1984).
His recent work focuses on masculinity and national identity in the Romantic period, with specific reference to Romantic period pugilism.

All are welcome to join us in the Ferrar room at Hertford college at 5.15 on Thursday 25th October.

Week Two -Thursday 18th October

Week Two – Thursday 18th October
A quest for honour in the Age of Reason: the Pre-Byronic experience of
volunteers in the Peninsular War (1808-1813)
Graciela Iglesias Rogers, University of Oxford

Michaelmas 2007

Michalemas 2007

Week Two – Thursday 18th October
A quest for honour in the Age of Reason: the Pre-Byronic experience of
volunteers in the Peninsular War (1808-1813)
Graciela Iglesias Rogers, University of Oxford

Week Three – Thursday 25th October
Romantic Masculinities
Professor John Whale, University of Leeds

Week Four – Thursday 1st November
Francis Jeffrey in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
Dr Will Christie, University of Sydney

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

Week 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

Week Seven – Thursday 22nd November
From Literature to Philosophy: Byron's "Northwest Passage" (Don Juan,
XIII, 39)
Professor Marc Poree, L'Université de Paris III

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 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