Seminar Series

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Previous events 

Wednesday 4th April, 2012

• Beth Roberts (University of Liverpool, PG) : ‘From River to Sea: Landscape and Literary Tradition in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets’
• James Sumner (University of Manchester): ‘“A caldron of mischief”: brewers, druggists and satirists in the early nineteenth century’
• Ben Moore (PG, University of Manchester) : ‘Vision and Architecture in Zola’s Paris’
• Mary Fairclough (University of Huddersfield) : 'Dr Thomas Beddoes and the Politics of the Imagination'

Wednesday 5th October, 2011

• Julie-Marie Strange (University of Manchester): 'Man and Home: Fatherhood and Inter-Personal Dynamics in the Working-Class House, c.1870-1914'.
• Sue Chaplin (Leeds Metropolitan University): 'Women and the Divine in Hannah More's Sacred Dramas'
• Claudia Soares (University of Manchester): 'Institutional Homeliness: Charitable Initiatives of Domesticity in the Waifs and Strays Society, 1881-1911'.
• Mark Yates (University of Salford): 'Illuminated Instruction in William Blake's “There is no Natural Religion.”'

Wednesday 6th July 2011

• Jeremy Tambling (University of Manchester), 'Thackeray afer Two Centuries'
• Angela Wright, (University of Sheffield), 'Chivalry and the Gothic: recuperating the past in the early nineteenth century'
• Alfie Brown (University of Manchester), 'Caricature in Dickens and Thackeray'
• Wahida Amin (University of Salford/RI), 'Impressions, irritability and the harp in Humphry Davy's early poetry'

Wednesday 6th April 2011

• Carole O’Reilly (Salford)- “‘Where Open Immorality Takes Place’- Transgressive Behaviours in Manchester's Municipal Parks in the Long Nineteenth Century.”
• Kirsty Bunting (MMU)- “Reading Collaboration in the Long Nineteenth Century”
• Richard De Ritter (Postdoc, Leeds)- “Making Female Philosophers: Elizabeth Hamilton's Letters on Education (1801-02)”
• Jessica Roberts (PG, Salford)- “Vitalism in the Early Nineteenth Century Periodical Press”

Wednesday 7th April, 2010

• 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’

Wednesday 6th January 2010

• 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

• 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 2009

• 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’’