Nineteenth-Century Places
A joint symposium between Arts of Place and the 19CC
—Wednesday 29th April—
Location: Arts Building, Room 250 (but we will decamp to Lecture Room 2 if we need more space)
We’ll start at 10am, and aim to finish at 4pm, and then head to the Edgbaston Park Hotel for a drink. Do feel free to join us for whatever you can throughout the day, and please circulate to anyone you think would be interested in the event.
Session One: 10-11.30am
Jessica Fay, ‘Dorothy Wordsworth in Place’
Hugh Adlington, ‘Teaching Literature and the Land’
Ellie Dobson, ‘Pompeii and the Uncanny’
—Tea and coffee break—
(Refreshments provided)
Session Two: 11.50am-1.10pm
Jon Stevens, ‘The Romantics in Bruges’
Matthew Ward, ‘Byron and the “sea-born city” of Allusion’
—Lunch—
(Not provided)
Session Three: 2.30-4pm
John Holmes, ‘Reading Walks in Ruskin Land: Literature, Forests and Nature Recovery’
Andrew Hodgson, ‘Beddoes’s “Last Judgement”’
Oliver Herford, ‘Henry James tracks Robert Louis Stevenson’
—Drinks and Conversation—
(Tab for all participants at Edgbaston Park Hotel bar)
