{"id":2257,"date":"2018-10-30T13:17:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:17:28","slug":"annual-wordsworth-lecture-at-senate-house-thursday-22-november-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Annual Wordsworth Lecture at Senate House, Thursday 22 November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordsworth.org.uk\/\">The Wordsworth Trust<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ies.sas.ac.uk\/\">Institute of English Studies<\/a>, University of London, invite you to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria,Cambria; font-size: x-large;\">\u2018A <\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: Cambria,Cambria; font-size: x-large;\">Daedalus <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: Cambria,Cambria; font-size: x-large;\">for the Romantic Era? Mary Shelley\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: Cambria,Cambria; font-size: x-large;\">Frankenstein\u2019 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A talk by Professor Fiona Sampson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-3-210x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-3-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-3-105x150.png 105w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-3.png 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The lecture will take place on Thursday 22 November 2018,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">6.00-7.00pm in the Chancellor&#8217;s Hall, Senate House,<span style=\"font-family: Cambria,Cambria; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Both <em>Frankenstein<\/em> and the Daedalus myth address our fear of the exceptional individual who abuses his talents by overreaching: the maker who doesn\u2019t know when to stop. Both create capacious archetypes, with plenty of space to explore ambivalence and even admiration alongside that fear. But Mary Shelley\u2019s <em>Frankenstein<\/em> takes us considerably further than the composite Daedalus story: in a number of directions. Political, ethical, existential and scientific, all seem particularly pertinent to British Romantic experience of society and the self. But is it a paradox that this apparently universalisable myth could only have been written in its own time and place?<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you would like to attend, please RSVP with your name and number of places to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Stratton, Development Office, the Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria, LA22 9SH.<br \/>\nAlternatively, telephone 015394 63520 or email <a href=\"mailto:h.stratton@wordsworth.org.uk\">h.stratton@wordsworth.org.uk<\/a>.<br \/>\nPlease RSVP by Friday 16 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wordsworth Trust and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, invite you to \u2018A Daedalus for the Romantic Era? Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein\u2019 A talk by Professor Fiona Sampson&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2257\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}