Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar - Oxford Talks

Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Welcomes everyone who researches literature of the long eighteenth century 1660-1830. Usually three seminars each term at Mansfield College. One seminar each term lunchtime and the other two early evening. Meets alternate Tuesdays with Romanticism seminar in term time.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford) , Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English) , Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford) , Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford) , Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford) , Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford) , Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford)
Timing: Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8. Tuesdays, 5.30pm
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Tuesday 11 February 2025

17:30 - Susanna Centlivre ‘The Busy Body’ (1709) revived for the 21st century stage
Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford, Creation Theatre and others)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

17:30 - Tangible Pasts: Antiquarian Culture and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century
Prof. Katharina Boehm (University of Passau, Germany)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

17:30 - Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
Prof. Julie Park (PPennsylvania State University)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

12:30 - “The capital pen of a sister author”: Reading Frances Burney with Jane Austen
Peter Sabor (McGill)

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Editors: Katy Terry, Luke Webster, Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu

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