The Delegate Assembly is the business meeting of the Modern Language Association and meets at the annual MLA convention.  Dr Wilson was nominated by the Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Forum and having been elected will serve for the three-year term, 2021-24. Link to further information about the MLA: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/About-the-MLA

As part of LGBTQ+ History Month, Strawberry Hill House hosts a series of online talks which explore the House, its occupants and our cultural understanding of LGBTQ+ history during the long 18th century. Anne Damer’s Place in Queer History – Caroline Gonda Wednesday 24 February, 7pm Anne Seymour Damer (1748- or 1749-1828) found fame in […]

‘The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts’ is supported by a 3-year ‘Opus’ grant awarded by NCN, the Polish government-funded National Science Centre. It involves a collaboration between Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz) and Poznań University with some significant research outputs: besides conference activity and journal articles, Dr Newbould will co-edit a major collection of essays […]

Pre-seminar materials will be uploaded on the Drama and Performance Moodle site. Please contact ew513@cam.ac.uk with any questions.

‘How to Wash a Heart’ is published by Pavilion Poetry. Link to further information: https://tseliot.com/prize/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2020/winner/        

To celebrate George Orwell joining the Oxford World’s Classics series, join the editor of Animal Farm, David Dwan as he chairs a conversation about one of the world’s  most influential writers. CrowdCast link to join the event: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/orwell_oxford_worlds_clas/register  

Manifold is celebrating the launch of their inaugural issue by hosting a symposium on Experimental Criticism that will run for seven weeks, starting Jan 21st. The panels will take place every Thursday from 1-2pm EST/6-7pm BST. To register for the events and for more information: https://www.manifoldcriticism.com/events Contributors of the first issue of Manifold will be […]

The Cambridge Foundation Year is a free and fully-funded one-year residential course designed to offer a stepping stone to Cambridge for those who have experienced educational disadvantage. If you want to pursue further study in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences, are ordinarily resident in the UK, and circumstances have prevented you from realising your […]

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Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure (Oxford UP, 2020) investigates Wordsworth’s sustained interest in unnoticed, retrospective and “unremembered” pleasure. Reading Wordsworth with and against the psychoanalytic tradition of reading for unconscious trauma, it recovers Wordsworth’s distinct interest in forgotten and unremembered things, and uses romanticism’s anti-traumatic forms as a resource for rethinking wider questions of aesthetic pleasure and compositional […]