Jennifer Wallace’s first novel ‘Digging Up Milton’ is published by Cillian Press. The book’s launch is on the 1st October, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London.
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Christopher Tilmouth & Katrin Ettenhuber Plenary Lectures – Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700
Katrin Ettenhuber and Christopher Tilmouth delivered plenary lectures at University of Sussex Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies Postgraduate ‘Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700’ conference. This conference explored the relationship between early modern literature and philosophical thought, theories and issues and took place between the 14th and 16th of July. Dr Tilmouth’s lecture was entitled […]
Continue ReadingDr Gavin Alexander Keynote at ‘Speaking Pictures: Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts in Early Modern England’
Dr Gavin Alexander presented a keynote: ‘Of proportion poetical: order, form, decorum, and analogy in early modern poetry and poetics’, at a one-day colloquium ‘Speaking Pictures: Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts in Early Modern England’, Universidad de Huelva, Spain, 31 October 2014.
Continue ReadingResounding Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Symposium
Resounding Dylan Thomas Saturday 11 October 2014 – Faculty of English 2014 marks the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth. As such, it provides an ideal opportunity to reevaluate a body of work that has for too long precluded scholarly consensus. The sticking point has always been a biographical one. Thomas’s untimely death in New York in 1953 […]
Continue ReadingWhither Political Theatre? – Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe
Whither Political Theatre? Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe. 19-20 Sept, St John’s College. The conference was sponsored by the British Academy as a BA Regional Event. Organising Committee: Dr Eva Urban, Dr Drew Milne, FBA Professor John Kerrigan. Keynote speakers included John Kerrigan & Eva Urban, from the Cambridge English Faculty, […]
Continue ReadingEnglish Renaissance Poetics: Online Bibliography of Texts and Sources
English Renaissance Poetics: An Online Bibliography of Texts and Sources – a £20k Cambridge Humanities Research Grants funded project lead by Dr Gavin Alexander ran from January to September 2014. ‘There has been too little engagement among literary scholars with early modern ways of thinking about imaginative literature. One major contributory factor is the difficulty […]
Continue ReadingUsing, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period
Dr Andrew Taylor delivered the keynote address at the University of Warwick’s, ‘Using, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period’ conference, Friday 25th-26th April 2014. The conference was hosted by the Queen Mary University, the University of Warwick IAS Classical Reception Network and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance.
Continue ReadingThe Blood Project – The Blood Conference
In January Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson convened The Blood Conference: Theories of Blood in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Culture at St Anne’s College, Oxford. The conference forms part of The Blood Project, a collaboration of scholars from a range of disciplines investigating the complex idea of blood. The two and a […]
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