tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67426391723107301932024-03-08T00:07:39.594-08:00Reevaluating the Literary CoterieAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742639172310730193.post-26750442884608126432012-12-12T09:34:00.003-08:002012-12-12T09:34:32.809-08:00FINAL SESSION - 6pm Tonight<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Join us this <b>Wednesday, 12 December</b> for the final instalment of UCL's seminar "<b>Reevaluating the Literary Coterie</b>". Our closing lecture will be given by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please join us in <b>Foster Court 114</b> at UCL at <b>6:00</b>. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742639172310730193.post-89397495495779037562012-11-29T05:30:00.002-08:002012-11-29T05:30:36.841-08:00MONDAY 3rd December, 6pm Foster Court 239Dear all,<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Join us this MONDAY,<b> 3rd December at 6:00</b> for UCL's "<b>Reevaluating the Literary Coterie</b>" seminar. This week we're<b> </b>looking at coteries in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. <b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Dr Gregory Dart </b>is a senior lecturer at UCL. His </span></span>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 <em>Metropolitan Art and Literature 1810-1840: Cockney Adventures </em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Will Bowers </b>is a third-year doctoral candidate at UCL, writing a thesis on the subject of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the British regency, entitled <i>Paradise of Exiles - Radical Anglo-Italianism 1816-1824</i>. His paper will look at one specific coterie which lasted from the French Revolution to the Victorian period, and is entitled:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <b>'A curious moving scene of all nations and languages’ - Holland House as salon or coterie.</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Join us in <b>Foster Court 239 at UCL</b> and for dinner afterwards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hannah and Will</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742639172310730193.post-54433294655695519192012-11-13T04:19:00.002-08:002012-11-13T04:19:22.713-08:00Early Modern 2 - Wednesday the 14th of November Dear all,<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Join us this Wednesday, <b>14 November at 6:00</b> for UCL's "<b>Reevaluating the Literary Coterie</b>" seminar. This week we're promised a lively debate:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Professor Steven May, </b>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,<b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Professor Arthur Marotti, </b>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." </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>Concentric
Literary Circlees: Christ Church, Oxford Poetry, and the Circulation of
Manuscript Verse in Jacobean and Carline England</i></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Join us in <b>Foster Court 130 at UCL</b> and for dinner afterwards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hannah and Will</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742639172310730193.post-40153670513467586442012-10-25T05:38:00.000-07:002012-10-25T05:38:00.077-07:00Eighteenth Century Seminar - 31st of October<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear
all,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />We are pleased to announce, after a successful start last
week, the second seminar of the series - to take place on Wednesday the 31st of October.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Felicity
Roberts is a doctoral candidate at King's College London, writing a
thesis on Hans Sloane. Her paper is entitled: </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mary
Delany (1700-1788) and her membership of the Bluestockings</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dr
Christine Gerrard, a fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of
Oxford, has published widely on the eighteenth century coterie around
Aaron Hill, and is also interested in the <span style="color: black;">circle
surrounding Princess Caroline of Anspach (later Queen Caroline) in
the late 1710s. Her paper is entitled:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>A
Scorpion in the Nest: Sexual Politics and the Hillarian Coterie,
1720-1725.</i></span></span></span></span>
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the papers there will be half an hour for questions and conversation,
at which wine will be provided. This seminar will begin at 18:00, in
Room 119 of the Roberts Buliding UCL, this is the same building as
last week, but further up the corridor. Attendees should come to the
Malet Place entrance of UCL (opposite Waterstones) and enter the
first building through the gates on the left. They will reach a
security barrier, where they should say that they are attending the
seminar, and will be directed to the correct room. If anyone gets
lost, or can't find us, give me a call on 07971 887952 and I'll find
you.<br /> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Any
questions should be directed to </span>reevaluatingcoteries@gmail.com,
and we look forward to seeing you there. </span></span></div>
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wishes, </span></span>
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Bowers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hannah Crummé</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742639172310730193.post-7829046882515235032012-10-09T07:45:00.000-07:002012-10-09T07:49:24.162-07:0017th October - Early Modern 1<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">We're pleased to announce the titles for the first seminar of the series,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hannah Crawforth is a lecturer at King's College, London, and has written extensively on Early Modern poetry. Her paper is entitled,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Memorializing the Coterie: Milton, Sidney and the Politics of 'Lycidas'</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second paper will be given by Jennifer Young, a doctoral candidate at King's College, London. She is primarily interested in Early Modern drama, particularly in the field of textual studies. She will be presenting a paper entitled,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Shakespeare and the Fleet Street Syndicate (1630-32)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The seminar will take place from 18:00-19:30 in the Room 110 of the Roberts Building (http://goo.gl/maps/G5yYk). Attendees should come to the Malet Place entrance of UCL (opposite Waterstones) and enter the first building through the gates on the left. They will reach a security barrier, where they should say that they are attending the seminar, and will be directed to the correct room. If anyone gets lost, or can't find us, give me a call on 07971 887952 and I'll find you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="color: black;"><span dir="ltr">After the papers there will be half an hour for questions and conversation, at which wine will be served. </span></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="color: black;"><span dir="ltr">Any questions should be directed to </span></span></span><span class="go">reevaluatingcoteries@gmail.com, and we look forward to seeing you there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="go">Will Bowers</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="go">Hannah Crumm<span class="go">é</span></span></span> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742639172310730193.post-6938035805714987132012-09-26T13:47:00.000-07:002012-09-26T13:47:01.326-07:00CHANGE OF DATE<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Due to unforeseen circumstances we have been forced to alter the dates for two of the seminars. Christine Gerrard and Felicity Roberts will now be speaking on the 31st of October. The Romantic Period session, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">with Gregory Dart and Will Bowers,</span></span> will now be on the 3rd of December. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.</span></span><br />
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October: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Early
Modern 1</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Hannah
Crawforth (KCL) and Jennifer Young (KCL). </span></span></div>
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October: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>The
Eighteenth Century</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Christine
Gerrard (Oxford) and Felicity Roberts (KCL).</span></span></div>
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November: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Early
Modern 2</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve
May (Sheffield & Emory) and Arthur F. Marotti
(Wayne State).</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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3rd December: <b>The Romantic Period</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Gregory
Dart (UCL) and Will Bowers (UCL)</span></span></div>
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December: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Closing
Lecture </b></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> Helen
Hackett (UCL).</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742639172310730193.post-9244693692377971942012-09-14T09:19:00.000-07:002012-09-25T06:59:22.469-07:00October 3rd - The eighteenth century<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm pleased to announce that the titles have now been submitted for the first seminar of the series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Felicity Roberts is a doctoral candidate at King's College London, writing a thesis on Hans Sloane. Her paper is entitled: </span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span dir="ltr"><i>Mary Delany (1700-1788) and her membership of the Bluestockings</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr Christine Gerrard, a fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, has published widely on the eighteenth century coterie around Aaron Hill, and is also interested in the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span dir="ltr">circle surrounding Princess Caroline of Anspach (later Queen Caroline) in the late 1710s. Her paper is entitled:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="en-GB"><span style="color: black;"><span dir="ltr"> A Scorpion in the Nest: Sexual Politics and the Hillarian Coterie, 1720-1725.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span dir="ltr">After the papers there will be half an hour for questions and conversation, at which refreshments will be provided. This seminar will begin at 18:00, in Room 130 of Foster court, UCL, (http://goo.gl/maps/7zOZd), but will move in subsequent weeks. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span dir="ltr">Any questions should be directed to </span></span></span><span class="go" style="font-size: large;">reevaluatingcoteries@gmail.com, and we look forward to seeing you there. </span></div>
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<span class="go" style="font-size: large;">Best wishes, </span></div>
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<span class="go" style="font-size: large;">Will Bowers</span></div>
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<span class="go" style="font-size: large;">Hannah Crummé</span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span dir="ltr"> </span></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742639172310730193.post-69321307928548620182012-09-04T08:13:00.002-07:002012-09-20T07:58:37.156-07:00<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reevaluating the Literary Coterie, 1550-1825</b><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">We will meet at UCL on Wednesday
evenings approximately fortnightly throughout Autumn 2012. We are
grateful to the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchange and the UCL Faculty
Institute of Graduate Studies for helping us organize, fund, and
promote what should prove a </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">fascinating</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> set
of discussions.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We
have three main objectives for the content of the series: the
discussion of specific literary coteries active in Great Britain and
Europe between 1550 and 1825; an examination of the conditions and
structures which lead to the creation, sustenance, and demise of
coteries; and a questioning of the viability of the coterie as a
hermeneutic model in criticism. </span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
series will comprise of four ninety-minute seminars with each session
containing two chronologically-linked papers of thirty minutes, followed
by thirty minutes of conversation. During this discussion, refreshments
will be served.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are pleased to announce the following confirmed speakers:</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Eighteenth Century, </b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday the 3rd of October: Christine Gerrard (Oxford) and Felicity Roberts (KCL).</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Early Modern 1,</b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Wednesday the 17th of October: Jennifer Young (KCL) and Hannah Crawforth (KCL).</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Romantic Period, </b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday the 31st of October: Gregory Dart (UCL) and Will Bowers (UCL).</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Early Modern 2,</b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Wednesday the 14th of November: Steve May (Sheffield & Emory) and Arthur F. Marotti (Wayne State).</span><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />Closing Lecture,</b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Wednesday the 5th of December: Helen Hackett (UCL).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We will have titles confirmed in a week or so, so check back with us! </span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We hope you can come along, and if you’ve got any questions then please get in touch with us at </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">reevaluatingcoteries@gmail.com,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Best wishes,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Will Bowers and Hannah Crummé</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518119121559325010noreply@blogger.com0