Nineteenth-Century

LENT TERM 2026

We look forward to welcoming research students and colleagues to the following talks this term which will take place at 5pm in Seminar Room SR24 in the Faculty of English Building at 9, West Road They are open to all.

5pm, Tuesday 10 February

Dr Claire White (French Section, MMLL, University of Cambridge), 'The Returns of Idealism: Émile Zola, Novel, and Nation'

5pm, Tuesday 24th February

. Dr Adelene Buckland, 'The Artificial Mother: Inventing Attachment in the Gilded Age' (King's College London)

5pm, Tuesday 10 March

PhD Candidate Panel Session

- Samuel Webb, 'Play-fighting: Matthew Arnold's Exchanges in the Periodical Press'

- Rebekah Cohen, 'W. M. Thackeray and Character Sketch Writing in the 1840s Comic Press'