18th Century and Romantic Literature

 

The Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Seminar is a research forum for those interested in the literature and culture of the period 1660 to 1830. It welcomes postgraduate students and teaching and research staff both from around Cambridge University (be that the English Faculty or other departments) and from beyond. Students and academics of all kinds, from postdoctoral researchers to professors, present papers for round-table discussion over drinks.

 

 

 

Seminars will take place at 5pm and are open to all.

 

The first meeting of the seminar this term will take place on Thursday 1 May at 5pm in the Board Room, Faculty of English. This will be a Ph.D. work-in-progress session.

ur three speakers, all current doctoral students at Cambridge are:

Olivia Houseman, 'Letitia Landon: Resisting the Subordination of Writing in the Visual Age'

Yingnan Shang, 'New Perspectives on British Travel Narratives, 1716-1796'

Hannah Wilson, 'The Psychology of Consent in Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela'

Convenors: Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah Burdett, Phil Connell, Sarah Haggarty, Ryan Heuser, Emily Senior, Claire Wilkinson