middle modernity: Schedule of Events

Middle Modernity Events 2007-08
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Archive of Past Mid-Mod Events

Lecture Series

Spring 2008:

Deidre Lynch, Professor of English at University of Toronto, “Canons' Clockwork.” February 21 at 4 PM. 6191 Helen C. White Hall.

Linda Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University. "American Imprints: Transatlantic Print Culture and the British Canon." March 3 at 4 PM. 7191 Helen C. White Hall.

Jules Law, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University. "'Figure' or 'Thing'?: The Problem with Fluids in the Victorian Novel." April 17 at 4 PM. 6191 Helen C. White Hall.

Jon Mee, Professor of Romanticism Studies at University of Warwick May 9 at 4 PM. 6191 Helen C. White Hall. See readings below.

Reading Group

Roundtable with Jon Mee
Friday, May 9th
1:00-2:00 PM
7101 Helen C. White Hall

Readings: Jon Mee, "‘In private speculation a republican’: The Case of John Thelwall 1794-5"

Jon Mee, "‘The Press and Danger of the Crowd’: Godwin, Thelwall, and the Counter-Public Sphere"

Dissertation/ Conference Paper Workshops

Spring 2008

Thursday, January 31st at 4:00 pm. 7101 Helen C. White Hall. Jonathon Ewell's dissertation chapter.

Thursday, February 28th at 4:00 pm. 7101 Helen C. White Hall. Gwen Blume's dissertation chapter.

Thursday, March 13th at 4:00 pm. 7101 Helen C. White Hall. Emily Senior's ASECS paper.

Date TBA: Jessica Citti's dissertation chapter.

Deidre Shauna Lynch is Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (University of Chicago Press, 1998; winner of the MLA First Book Prize); the editor of Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees (Princeton University Press, 2000) and the co-editor of Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Duke University Press, 1996) and of the Romantic-period volume of the eighth edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006). In addition to work on Romantic-period botany and on the Gothic novel, her new book in progress is At Home in English: A Cultural History of the Love of Literature. In addition to her public lecture for the Middle Modernity Group, Professor Lynch will speak with graduate and undergraduates enrolled in courses in which problems of canonicity and reading are at issue across the discipline of English Studies.

Linda Hughes is Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University. Professor Hughes has published widely on Victorian periodical culture and on Victorian poetry. Her books include The Victorian Serial (Virginia, 1991) and Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work (Virginia, 1999), both with Michael Lund, as well as a /Graham R: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters/ (Ohio, 2005), a co-edited collection on Victorian and Modernist biographies, as well as a collection of Gaskell's short fiction, and a monograph on Tennyson. She is currently writing The Cambridge Introduction to Poetry. She teaches, researches, and has published in addition numerous articles on Victorian poetry and on serial forms of fiction and poetry in Victorian periodical culture. Her guest lecture on poetry and magazine print culture will be of particular interest to the students taking English 845 (Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Popular Literature) in Spring 2008, as well as our undergraduate students in nineteenth-century British literature.

Jules Law (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University) has published numerous articles on Hardy, George Eliot, Joyce, Wittgenstein, and Derrida. His book, The Rhetoric of Empiricism, examines the metaphors of reflection, surface, and depth in philosophy, literary criticism, and art criticism from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. He is currently working on a book entitled The Secret Life of Fluids: Body, Space, and Social Control in the Victorian Novel.

Jon Mee has published widely on culture and politics in the Romantic period. His books include Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford, 2003) and Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Oxford, 1992). His research interests include British popular radicalism in the 1790s; literature, censorship, and the law; Marxist literary theory; communicative ethics; William Blake; Anna Laetitia Barbauld; Mary Wollstonecraft; William Godwin, the Joseph Johnson circle and Rational Dissent; Charles Dickens; Dickens and film; the contemporary Indian novel in English.