The University of Birmingham’s Nineteenth-Century Centre’s Public Lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Clare Bucknell <\/strong>(All Souls, Oxford), ‘Nineteenth-Century Anthologising: “Castrated” Books and Poems’<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday 25th<\/sup> May 2023, 6:00pm-7:30pm at <\/strong>Selly Manor Museum <\/strong>(in collaboration with The Bookshop on the Green, and as part of the AMD Hughes Annual Memorial Lecture Series)<\/p>\n In\u00a0The Condition of the Working Class in England\u00a0<\/em>(1845), Friedrich Engels touches on an unexpected subject: poetry. \u2018Shelley, the genius, the prophet, Shelley, and Byron, with his glowing sensuality and his bitter satire upon our existing society,\u2019 he observes, \u2018find most of their readers in the proletariat.\u2019 By contrast, \u2018the bourgeoisie owns only castrated editions, family editions, cut down in accordance with the hypocritical morality of today.\u2019 Anthologies, in Engels\u2019s argument \u2013 those \u2018castrated editions\u2019, shorn of sensual, satirical or radical poetic material \u2013 become a kind of bookish metaphor for the bourgeois imagination, hemmed in by prejudices and fears. In my lecture, drawing on my recent book,\u00a0The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture<\/em>\u00a0(2023), I\u2019ll speak on the subject of those \u2018castrated\u2019 collections of the nineteenth century, and the ideological impulses that stood behind their making. Who were nineteenth-century anthologies for, and did their intended readers approach them in the ways they were supposed to? What were they not reading when they accessed literary culture through \u2018family editions\u2019? And what happened to the poems that repeatedly ended up, in \u2018castrated\u2019 form, in such books?<\/p>\n All welcome. For tickets, please sign up here:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.bournvillehub.com\/box-office\/lecture-the-treasuries-poetry-anthologies-and-the-making-of-british-culture-with-dr-clare-bucknell<\/a><\/p>\n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Birmingham’s Nineteenth-Century Centre’s Public Lecture Dr Clare Bucknell (All Souls, Oxford), ‘Nineteenth-Century Anthologising: “Castrated” Books and Poems’ Thursday 25th May 2023, 6:00pm-7:30pm at Selly Manor Museum (in collaboration with The Bookshop on the Green, and as part of the AMD Hughes Annual Memorial Lecture Series) In\u00a0The Condition of the Working Class in … Continue reading “The University of Birmingham’s Nineteenth-Century Centre’s Public Lecture, Dr Clare Bucknell (All Souls, Oxford), ‘Nineteenth-Century Anthologising: “Castrated” Books and Poems’”<\/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-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","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=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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