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The North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar Series


Our next event will be held on Wednesday 7th April, 2-5pm

Speakers:

  • Helen Rogers (LVJM), ‘“Liberated Prisoners”: Rehabilitation in the early nineteenth century’
  • Susan Ross (PG, University of Salford), ‘Placing the “strange thing” into the drawer of the “anthropological museum”: Some Victorian metropolitan responses to labouring-class poets’
  • Deborah Mutch (Leicester), ‘Reading Across The Page: Socialism and Serialisation’
  • Andrew Hobbs (PG UCLAN), ‘Books versus periodicals as sources for 19th century literature and history’

Manchester’s Central Library will be closed for refurbishment then but nearer the time we will advise on our new meeting place.

Future Dates:

Weds 7th July 2010, October 6th 2010, January 5th 2011, 6th April 2011, 6th July 2011, 5th October 2011.

We are grateful for the financial support of the University of Salford, the British Association for Romantic Studies, and the British Association for Victorian Studies.

For more details or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Sharon Ruston.

Previous events:

Wednesday 6th January 2010, 2-5pm

  • Emma Liggins (MMU), ‘Spinster Heroines in Modernist Women's fiction: F.M. Mayor and May Sinclair’
  • Juliet John (Liverpool), ‘Dickens and Mass Culture’
  • Clare Horrocks (postdoc, Liverpool John Moore’s University), ‘Examining the Verbal Visual Dynamics of Punch’
  • Alex Broadhead (postdoc, Liverpool), ‘Samuel Rogers and Modernity’

Wednesday 7th October 2009, 2-5pm

  • Deborah Wynne (Chester), ‘Miss Havisham’s Cake: Dickens and Women’s Soft Wealth’
  • Mike Brown (CHSTM, University of Manchester), ‘Medicine, masculinity and the military paradigm in Victorian Britain’
  • Polly Atkin (Lancaster University): Dreaming Grasmere: De Quincey and the sense of mysterious pre-existence’
  • Kim Edwards (University of Liverpool), ‘Maids, Mistresses and Inter-Female Intimacy in Charles Dickens's Novels’

Wednesday 1st July, 2-5pm

  • Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire) ‘Revolution in the Public Mind: The Irish Science of Richard Kirwan’
  • Amber Regis (Keele University) ‘Erasing Digression from the Memoirs of John Addington Symonds’
  • Brian Maidment (University of Salford) ‘The Morphology of Mishap - London “Miseries” 1810-1850’
  • Francesca Scott (University of Warwick), ‘‘Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith and the Sexual Female Body’’