Musical Nervousness as a Fashionable Disease
By GlynisIngram Music and the Nerves I first became interested in the ‘fashionable diseases’ of the long eighteenth century when I was working on my book Bad Vibrations: The History… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Five Questions: Judith Hawley on Amateur Theatricals
By admin Judith Hawley is Professor of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her doctoral work at Oxford was on Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,… Read more »
Week 6 – ‘De-frosting the Discourse on the Subject: S. T. Coleridge’
By Honor Rieley Professor Christoph Bode, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München This week we’re very happy to be welcoming Professor Christoph Bode back to Oxford, where he will soon be taking up a… Read more »
Making Lists, Checking Twice
By hardeepssidhu Soon, the Blake Archive will publish its second batch of Blake’s correspondence, making the bulk of Blake’s ninety or so letters available online. One of the side projects… Read more »
Bernhard Kuhn, Autobiography and Natural Science in the Age of Romanticism
By Anthony Mandal It is striking that the turn of the nineteenth century saw the earliest use—and swift adoption—of both autobiography and biology and their cognates in European languages. [1]… Read more »
Nina L. Dubin, Futures and Ruins
By Anthony Mandal A reliable treatment of the work of ‘Robert des ruines’ (Hubert Robert, 1733–1808) has been wanting for many years, and Nina Dubin’s Futures and Ruins will amply… Read more »
Teresa Barnard, Anna Seward: A Constructed Life. A Critical Biography
By Anthony Mandal Anna Seward: A Constructed Life is the first biography of the ‘Swan of Lichfield’ since Margaret Ashmun’s 1931 account of the writer and her famous literary friends…. Read more »
Visiting Speaker, Cardiff University: Angie Dunstan on the Romantic Literary Afterlives
By Anthony Mandal Angie Dunstan (University of Kent) will be presenting her paper, ‘Romantic Literary Societies and their Victorian Afterlives’, at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 25 February 2014. The talk will… Read more »
For interest of Romanticists – Oxford Garden and Landscape History Seminar
By Katherine Fender A new forum has been created at Oxford to facilitate the discussion of ideas surrounding notions of space, garden and landscape. More information is available here: This… Read more »
Five Questions: On the Fashionable Diseases Project
By admin In addition to talking to scholars who’ve recently completed monographs and editions, I thought that it’d be interesting to talk with teams of scholars who are currently working… Read more »