{"id":3200,"date":"2020-08-14T06:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2020-08-14T06:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T06:35:01","slug":"romantic-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=3200","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Lectures in Literature via Durham University<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Free public lectures on Zoom, 17.30 BST<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday 19 August 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Amanda Blake Davis (University of Sheffield) &#8211; \u2018Unbodied Joy\u2019: Birds and Embodiment in Shelley and Keats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bodies of living birds in Keats and Shelley\u2019s poetry are cast off in favour of ethereal song in poems such as \u2018Ode to a Nightingale\u2019, composed in the presence of a living nightingale outside Keats\u2019 Hampstead home, and \u2018To a Skylark\u2019, in which Shelley glides between the ethereal and the material. This lecture will explore the Platonic implications of Keats and Shelley\u2019s vacillations between body and mind through their<br>depictions of birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex Hobday (University of Cambridge) &#8211; The Happiness of the High-Wrought Mind: The Autobiographical Pursuit of Happiness in Eighteenth-Century Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018And, considering the question of human happiness, where, oh where does it reside? Has it taken up its abode with unconscious ignorance or with the high-wrought mind?\u2019. Broken-hearted and soon to be deserted by the father of her child, Mary Wollstonecraft writes these words in her autobiographical travelogue Short Residence. Such questions echoed throughout eighteenth-century culture. What is happiness? And how can we achieve it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign up on Eventbrite for Zoom details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/o\/read-research-english-at-durham-17315244160\">here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>@Late_Summer2020  #LateSummerLectures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lectures in Literature via Durham University Free public lectures on Zoom, 17.30 BST Wednesday 19 August 2020 Dr Amanda Blake Davis (University of Sheffield) &#8211; \u2018Unbodied Joy\u2019: Birds and Embodiment&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=3200\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[10,2,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}