The Early Career and Postgraduate Conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies

ROMANTIC VOICES

(TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities Building, 22 – 23 June)

Wednesday 22June

10 – 10.30: Registration (in the foyer) and tea (in the TORCH Common Room on Level 3)

10.30 – 10.45: Welcome (TORCH Seminar Room)

10.45 – 12.15: Morning Session

Panel One:Silence, Censorship and Self-Defence

TORCH Seminar Room. Chair: Francesca Benatti

  • Christy Edwall (Oxford) – Romantic Defensiveness
  • Kerry Stanley (Kent) – Silence and the Politics of Female Exclusion in Mansfield Park
  • Fiona Milne (York) – Reimagining Romantic Censorship: Thomas Paine's Prosecution for Rights of Man

Panel Two:National and International Voices

Philosophy Lecture Room. Chair: Michael Falk

  • Andrew Farrow (University College Cork) – A Cry in the Wilderness: Blake’s Public and Private Voices
  • Mimi Lu (Sydney) – The Multilingual Poetics of Byron’s Don Juan
  • Sarah Sharp (Otago) – ‘Hello from the Other Side’: Scottish Romantic Migrant Voices from the Antipodes

12.15 – 1.15: Afternoon Session I

Panel Three:Romantic Inheritance

TORCH Seminar Room. Chair:Helen Stark

  • Michael Sullivan (Cambridge) – Tennyson’s Early Voice: Romantic Prophecy and the Lyrical Mode
  • Paul Griffin (University College Cork) – De Quincey’s Dark Interpretations from the Periphery

Panel Four:Collaboration and Influence

Philosophy Lecture Room. Chair: Sihwa Mun

  • Erin Lafford (Oxford) – Clare’s Keatsian Breathings
  • Anna Mercer (York) – Rethinking the Shelleys’ Collaborations in Manuscript

1.15 – 2: Lunch (TORCH Common Room)

2 – 3.30: Afternoon Session II

Panel Five:Religious and Political Musings

TORCH Seminar Room. Chair: Michael Sullivan

  • Pablo San Martín(Edinburgh) – On ‘The Anthropomorphism of the Vulgar’: Theological Debate and Natural History in Percy Shelley’s Irreligious Writings
  • Tim Carson (Queen’s University Belfast) – ‘From the voice which roars along the bed of Jewish song’: Biblical Influence in Wordsworth’s Michael
  • Jacob Lloyd (Oxford) – ‘To calm and guide / The swelling democratic tide’:The Voice of Mark Akenside in Coleridge’s ‘Religious Musings’

Panel Six:Women on the Public Stage

Philosophy Lecture Room. Chair: Ruth Scobie

  • Lucia Scigliano (Durham) – ‘The English Historian of the French Revolution’: Helen Maria Williams’ Revolutionary Voice in Letters from France
  • Sarah Burdett (York) – ‘What Ghastly shade attracts my sight?’: Sarah Siddons, Lady Macbeth, and the Ghost of Marie Antoinette
  • Sarah Comyn (Melbourne) – Blue Ladies and Political Economy: Women Writers, the Popularization of Political Economy and the Discourse of Happiness

3.30 – 4.30: Seminars

  • Ruth Scobie (TORCH) – Robert Southey, ‘Elinor’, and the Newspapers

Colin Matthew Room

  • Matthew Sangster (Birmingham) – Voices and Visions of London

TORCH Seminar Room

  • Catherine Redford (Oxford) – The Last Man: a Voice Without a Listener

Philosophy Lecture Room

4.30– 5: Tea (TORCH Common Room)

5 – 6.15:Plenary Lecture (Philosophy Lecture Room)

  • Professor Simon Kövesi (Oxford Brookes) – John Clare’s Voices

6.30 – 8: Wine Reception at Turl Street Kitchen

8 – 10: Dinner at Turl Street Kitchen

Thursday 23 June

9.30 – 11: Morning Session

Panel Seven:Locating Marginalised Voices

TORCH Seminar Room. Chair: Christy Edwall

  • Thomas Tyrrell (Cardiff) – Female Prospects: Voice and Vision in the Poetry of Ann Yearsley
  • Michael Falk (Kent) – Lost Voices of the Sonnet: A Comparison of Smith and Clare
  • Grace Harvey (Lincoln) – Man as he could have been: Locating Robert Bage in the 1790s Literary Canon

Panel Eight:Romantic Print Culture

Philosophy Lecture Room. Chair: Honor Rieley

  • Francesca Benatti and David King (Open University) – In Search of the Voice of the Edinburgh Review
  • Duncan Hotchkiss (Stirling) – ‘A dissident form of communication’?Hogg’s short stories and the periodical press
  • Isabel Corfe (NUI Galway) – The Voice on the Street in the Romantic Period

11 – 11.30: Tea (TORCH Common Room)

11.30 – 1: Public Engagement Workshop (Philosophy Lecture Room)

Organised by Professor Nicola Watson, with contributions from Dr Helen Starkand Dr Gillian Dow

1 – 1.45: Lunch (TORCH Common Room)

1.45 – 2.45: Afternoon Session I

Panel Nine:Nonverbal Utterances

TORCH Seminar Room. Chair: Matthew Ward

  • Joanna Taylor (Lancaster) – Romantic Voices and English Echoes
  • Helen-Frances Pilkington (Birkbeck) – Hearing the Railways in the 1820s

Panel Ten:Radicals and Revolutionaries

Philosophy Lecture Room. Chair: Sarah Sharp

  • Emma Povall (De Montfort) – Voice of the Radical Friend: Thomas Holcroft’s Hugh Trevor
  • Jihee Kim (York) – Was Village Politics a Response to A Vindication of the Rights of Men?

2.45 – 3.45: Afternoon Session II

Panel Eleven:Definitions of the Human

TORCH Seminar Room. Chair: Erin Lafford

  • Emelia Quinn (Oxford) – The Monstrous Vegan: Queer Veganism and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
  • Merrilees Roberts (QMUL) – ‘Not to dare to give a human voice to my despair’: Shame and Inter-subjectivity in Julian and Maddalo

Panel Twelve:Educational Voices

Philosophy Lecture Room. Chair: Helen-Frances Pilkington

  • Kat Olvey (Durham) – Narrating Retrospection: Power Through Narration in Mary Hays’sMemoirs of Emma Courtney
  • Jessica Lim (Cambridge) – 'But puss, why did you kill the rabbit?':Anna Laetitia Barbauld and the Speaking Child in Romantic-era England

3.45–4.15: Tea (TORCH Common Room)

4.15– 5.30: Plenary Lecture (Philosophy Lecture Room)

  • Dr Freya Johnston (Oxford) – Dialogues of the Deaf

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