{"id":1202,"date":"2023-03-02T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:28:37","slug":"19cc-research-seminar-dr-james-grande-kcl-dr-jack-quin-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2023\/03\/02\/19cc-research-seminar-dr-james-grande-kcl-dr-jack-quin-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"19CC Research Seminar: Dr James Grande (KCL) & Dr Jack Quin (Birmingham)"},"content":{"rendered":"

19CC Research Seminar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr James Grande (King’s College London) and Dr Jack Quin (University of Birmingham) <\/b><\/p>\n

Wednesday 8th<\/sup> March 2023, 5pm-7pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arts 104<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr James Grande (King\u2019s College London), \u2018Amelia Opie, Music and Dissent\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harriet Guest has written, \u2018Opie\u2019s was one of the most successful publishing careers of the early nineteenth century\u2019, but until recently Opie had become, in Gary Kelly\u2019s words, \u2018almost entirely forgotten and read\u2019. I will suggest that the centrality of music to Opie\u2019s career helps to explain both her contemporary celebrity and subsequent neglect: as the writer of popular ballads and hymns, a celebrated vocal performer, and a novelist whose work was frequently adapted for the stage in the form of opera and melodrama, Opie eludes the established categories of Romantic authorship. The paper will pay particular attention to the way that the changing meanings of music in Opie\u2019s writing relate to her religious and political identity, from her Unitarian education and rational faith in song as a mode of \u2018conversation<\/em> put into sweet sounds\u2019, to her performance of revolutionary anthems in the boulevards of Paris and finally to her conversion to Quakerism and renunciation of both fiction and non-sacred music.<\/p>\n

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Dr Jack Quin (University of Birmingham), \u2018Poets and Public Monuments\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Surveying the statues of various politicians and monarchs in and around the Houses of Parliament in 1932, Virginia Woolf remarked that perhaps \u2018the days of the small separate statue are over [\u2026] Let us rebuild the world then as a splendid hall; let us give up making statues and inscribing them with impossible virtues.\u2019 In this paper, I will consider 1890s poetry on public statuary alongside the tempestuous debates surrounding these monuments. If public sculpture\u2019s power is predicated on its historical endurance, poems about<\/em> statues conceive of sculpture as a curiously fluid medium that is non-static, anachronistic, and subject to ageing or material degrading.<\/p>\n

Poems by Swinburne, Lionel Johnson, and others set up a rivalry \u2013 or paragone<\/em> \u2013 between poetry and sculpture in their claims to permanence. In a period of \u2018statumania\u2019 or prolific monument-making at the turn of the century \u2013 where statues are typically read as didactic, or as a homogenising force across the expanse of Empire \u2013 poets can be seen to frustrate a seamless verisimilitude of man and monument that might provide a simplified legacy of certain statesmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19CC Research Seminar Dr James Grande (King’s College London) and Dr Jack Quin (University of Birmingham) Wednesday 8th March 2023, 5pm-7pm Arts 104 Dr James Grande (King\u2019s College London), \u2018Amelia Opie, Music and Dissent\u2019 Harriet Guest has written, \u2018Opie\u2019s was one of the most successful publishing careers of the early nineteenth century\u2019, but until recently … Continue reading “19CC Research Seminar: Dr James Grande (KCL) & Dr Jack Quin (Birmingham)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}