Thursday 29 November 2012

MONDAY 3rd December, 6pm Foster Court 239

Dear all,

Join us this MONDAY, 3rd December at 6:00 for UCL's "Reevaluating the Literary Coterie" seminar. This week we're looking at coteries in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.  
Dr Gregory Dart is a senior lecturer at UCL. His research, both current and prospective, is centrally concerned with Romanticism, the City, and the history and development of the essay form from Montaigne to the modern period. His paper will look at the role of Charles Lamb and Crabb-Robinson on the 'cockney' formations he has examined in his new book Metropolitan Art and Literature 1810-1840: Cockney Adventures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Will Bowers is a third-year doctoral candidate at UCL, writing a thesis on the subject of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the British regency, entitled Paradise of Exiles - Radical Anglo-Italianism 1816-1824. His paper will look at one specific coterie which lasted from the French Revolution to the Victorian period, and is entitled:
 'A curious moving scene of all nations and languages’ - Holland House as salon or coterie.  
Join us in Foster Court 239 at UCL and for dinner afterwards.
Kind regards, 
Hannah and Will

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Early Modern 2 - Wednesday the 14th of November

 Dear all,
Join us this Wednesday, 14 November at 6:00 for UCL's "Reevaluating the Literary Coterie" seminar. This week we're promised a lively debate:
Professor Steven May, is adjunct Professor of English at Emory University, Atlanta, and Senior Research Fellow in the School of English at Sheffield University, where he is principal investigator of a 4-year Arts and Humanities Research Council grant concerned with Renaissance English scribal culture. His books include The Elizabethan Courtier Poets (1991) an edition of Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works (2004) and Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603 (2004). His research interests center on English Renaissance manuscript culture, the Tudor court, and editing early modern documents. He will be speaking under the title,
Coteries? What Coteries?
Professor Arthur Marotti, is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Wayne State University, where taught from 1970 to 2010. He has also had visiting appointments at The Johns Hopkins University, The University of Michigan, and two Brazilian federal  universities.  He taught courses in early modern English literature and culture and has a special interest in lyric poetry, material textuality (especially poetry in manuscript) and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Catholic culture.  He is the author of John Donne, Coterie Poet (1986); Manuscript, Print and the English Renaissance Lyric (1995); and Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England (2005). As well as a number of essay collections as editor and contributor. His current projects include a book coauthored with Steven May, on a 16th century Yorkshire Household Book, tentatively titled "Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge and Queen Elizabeth: The Household Book of John Hanson."
Concentric Literary Circlees: Christ Church, Oxford Poetry, and the Circulation of Manuscript Verse in Jacobean and Carline England 
Join us in Foster Court 130 at UCL and for dinner afterwards.
Kind regards, 
Hannah and Will