News and Events
News
Dr Sam Ward joins the project team working on The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Sam took up the AHRC-funded postdoctoral research fellowship on 1 September 2007. He replaces Dr Carol Bolton, who has been appointed to a lectureship at Loughborough University. Carol will continue as a volume editor on The Collected Letters. The project team wish her every success in her new post.
Wales and the Romantic Imagination, co-edited by Lynda Pratt and Damian Walford-Davies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), was published by the University of Wales Press in June 2007. It is the first ever collection devoted exclusively to the figuring of Wales by native inhabitants and tourists Romantic-period writing. Examining the work of canonical and non-canonical writers in a variety of genres, the volume reveals the forms in which Wales resisted, succumbed to and embraced appropriation. It breaks new ground by countering the critical marginalisation of Wales in accounts of the formation of British Romanticism. At a time when a monolithic cultural model is being superseded by the plural Romanticisms of the ‘four nations’, the twelve essays in this book are concerned both to locate ‘Romantic Wales’ more centrally and to devolve it. This move involves a sharper awareness of complex cultural allegiances in an international context, and a more precise understanding of the relation between Romanticism and national identity, politics, the imperial project, print culture and gender. Wales and the Romantic Imagination generates a culturally nuanced map – vital new textual geographies – of the period’s literary activity. Click here for further information.
Events
The Centre for Regional Literature and Culture and its members organise conferences, seminars and other events.
Forthcoming events include:
Celebrating Alan Sillitoe
11am-5pm, Saturday 2 October 2010
Nottingham City Council House, Market Square
More information here
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The Eighteenth Century Interdisciplinary Seminar
Tuesdays at 5.15pm, Staff Club, University Park Campus
More information on the Autumn 2010 programme here
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Robert Southey and Romantic Contexts
14-16 April 2010
Keswick, Cumbria
Full details can be found here
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Landscape, Space, Place Research Group
Seminar Series 2009-2010: ‘Mapping: Cultural Cartographies’
Details can be found here
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Regional Romanticism: A Midlands Romantic Seminar Event
Sponsored by the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture, Nottingham
at
Loughborough University (The Music Centre)
Friday 14 November 2008
For further details contact: Carol Bolton (C.J.Bolton@lboro.ac.uk)
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DH Lawrence Society
All meetings at Eastwood Public Library, 7.15pm (first Wednesday of the month)
Sept 11 Keith Sagar 'Lawrence's God'
Oct 8 Peter Preston 'Lawrence at Picinisco'
Nov 12 Barrie Mencher 'The Eye of the Beholder'
Jan 14 Sean Matthews 'Lawrence on Film'
Feb 12 Ruth Webb 'Lawrence in Croydon'
Mar 12 Bethan Jones 'Lawrence's Late Restoration Narratives'
Apr 8 Howard Booth 'Emotion, Desire and Inhibition in Lawrence's Early Short Fiction'
May 13 David Brock 'Nettles: Do they Sting?'
Jun 10 Richard Swigg 'The Recorded Lawrence'
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International D.H.Lawrence Conference
"The logic of emotion"
in Paris, 26-28 March 2009
Call for papers (deadline: 15 Dec 2008)
For further information:
http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article1221
Contact: Ginette Roy (roy@u-paris10.fr)
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"Ovid, Myth and (Literary) Exile"
at Ovidius University Constanta, Romania,
10-12 September 2009
Call for Papers (deadline: 15 Feb 2009)
For further information, contact:
Nicoleta Stanca (nicoletastanca@yahoo.com)
Diana Hornoiu (dianahornoiu@gmail.com)
Ludmila Martanovschi (ludmila_martan@yahoo.com)
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Previous events include:
Romantic Geographies (June 2006), in association with the ‘Midlands Romantic Seminar’.
Romantic Correspondences (November 2005). The Centre’s launch event. Held at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
Romantic Histories (April 2005), in association with the ‘Midlands Romantic Seminar’.
