Thursday 5 May, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Stephen Whiteman (Courtauld Institute)
“Books for Princesses and Khans: The Diffuse History of Imperial poems on the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat”
Thursday 12 May, 5 pm, SR24, Faculty of English
Heather Wolfe (Folger Shakespeare Library)
‘Varieties of Writing Papers in Early Modern England’
All seminars will take place in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road. We will also stream the seminars; please contact jes1003@cam.ac.uk if you would like to join distantly.
Thursday 10 February, 5 pm [rescheduled to 3 March]
Emerson Richards-Hoppe (Pembroke College, Cambridge) ‘Tracing Early Ownership and Examining Readership of the Paris Apocalypse (BnF Ms. fr. 403).’
Thursday 24 February, 5 pm
Jessica Berenbeim and Alexandra da Costa (Cambridge) ‘Front Matter’
All seminars will take place in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road. We will also stream the seminars; please contact jes1003@cam.ac.uk if you would like to join distantly.
Gill Partington (Exeter) and Adam Smyth (Oxford) will discuss their new journal, Inscription: The Journal of Material Text: Theory – Practice – History
Thursday 25 November, 5 pm
Georgina Wilson (Cambridge), ‘“Miscellaneous Tatters”: It-Narratives, Paper, and Literary Composition’
All seminars will take place in GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road.
‘The Artefacts of Poetry in the Era of Digital Reproduction: Towards a Poetics of Small Press Publishing’
Thursday26 November, 5 pm
Joshua Calhoun (Wisconsin-Madison)
will join us to discuss his new book, The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England (etext on iDiscover).
All seminars will be on Zoom–to register please contact Justine Provino (jpep3@cam.ac.uk)
Friday 7 February, 2-5pm Alison Richard Building SG2 Re-thinking the Book A CMT 10th anniversary collaboration with the CRASSH ‘Re-‘ project, starring Juliet Fleming, Alexandra Gillespie, Deidre Lynch, Gill Partington and Adam Smyth
Thursday 20 February, 5pm Board Room, Faculty of English Susanna Berger (University of Southern California) and Bill Sherman (Warburg Institute) in conversation
Thursday 5 March, 5pm Board Room, Faculty of English Drew Milne (Cambridge), ‘The Artefacts of Poetry in the Era of Digital Reproduction: Towards a Poetics of Small Press Publishing’
Thursday 25 April, 5 pm, GR06/7, Faculty of English
Tom Mole (Centre for the History of the Book, Edinburgh)
‘Thinking Through the Material: Byron at Work’
In this paper, I examine some of Byron’s manuscripts (especially those for Childe Harold Canto Three and Don Juan Cantos One and Two) in order to think about how he made use of the affordances and limitations of the manuscript page in the process of composing works that he intended for print. In particular, I will suggest, he ‘thought through’ the material process of writing in ways that he knew would be effaced by the publication of his works.
This seminar will be held in association with the 18th Century/Romantic Literature seminar.
Thursday 16 May, 5 pm, Board Room, Faculty of English
Felix Waldmann(Cambridge, History)
‘Prolegomena to a revised edition of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government‘.
My paper discusses the editorial history of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government (1689) and a prospectus for a new critical edition of the work, superseding Peter Laslett’s monumental Cambridge University Press edition of 1960. The paper examines how scholarship in the last six decades has questioned or overturned a number of Laslett’s editorial and interpretative suppositions, including the significance of the so-called ‘Christ’s College’ association copy, the influence of Thomas Hobbes on Locke’s political thought, and the possible co-authorship by Locke of James Tyrrell’s Patriarcha non Monarcha (1681).
