Faculty of English Language and Literature
University of Oxford
FIN DE SIECLE SEMINAR SERIES
2004-5 Programme
Fin de Siècle is an interdisciplinary seminar series for the discussion of literature and society in England between c.1870 and 1920.
The seminar meets Thursdays in term at 5.00 p.m. in the Meyerstein Room (11), St. Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford.
All are invited to attend.
Michaelmas Term
Week 2, 21 October:
Guy Cuthbertson (Queens, Oxford)
“‘Only the Name’: Place-names and the Imagination in the Poetry of Edward Thomas and A. E. Housman”
Dr. Jason Rudy (University of Maryland)
“Wilde Beats”
Week 4, 4 November:
Jad Adams
“Girls and the Late Victorian Artists”
Week 6, 18 November:
Dr. Anne Witchard (Birkbeck)
“The Glamorous Shame of Chinatown”
Week 8, 2 December:
Prof. Hans-Peter Söder (Wayne State University/Universität München)
“Historical Pessimism and the Boundaries of a Cultural History of the Fin de Siècle”
Hilary Term
Week 1, 20 January:
Dr. Sally Ledger (Birkbeck)
“Women, ‘The Yellow Book’, and the Sexual Politics of the Decadence”
Week 3, 3 February:
Dr. Lucy Hartley (Southampton)
“‘But Can We Be Sure That Things Are At All Like Our Feelings?’ Walter Pater and the Language of Inner Sense”
Week 4, 10 February:
Pippa Bennett (Birkbeck)
“‘A New Land At Last To Be Seen’ Reclaiming Iceland: William Morris and the Revival of the Great Old North”
Anna Vaninskaya (Hertford, Oxford)
“Generic Revolutions: William Morris in the Realm of Romance”
Week 6, 24 February:
Prof. Barbara Leckie (Carleton University)
“Protest Prefaces: The Role of the Novel Preface in Fin de Siècle Print Censorship Debates”
Week 8, 10 March:
Dr. Jamieson Ridenhour (University of South Carolina)
“In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in the Fin de Siècle”
Trinity Term
Week 2, 5 May:
Dr. Stephen Donovan (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
“Colonialism, Limited: The British South Africa Company in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle”
Week 3, 12 May:
Dr. Emma Francis (Warwick)
“Why Wasn't Amy Levy More of a Socialist? Amy Levy, Clementina Black and Liza of Lambeth”
Week 4, 19 May:
Dr. Katharine Cockin (University of Hull)
“Ellen Terry and her Paper Lovers”
Week 6, 2 June:
Tatiana Kontou (University of Sussex)
“Spectral Theatricals: Performativity in Sensation Fiction and the Séance”
Prof. Jill Galvan (Ohio State University)
“Hypnosis, Modernity, and the Recording Unconscious at the Fin de Siècle”
Week 8, 16 June:
Dr. Christina Britzolakis (Warwick)
“Pathologies of the Imperial Metropolis: Impressionism as Traumatic Afterimage in Conrad and Ford”
Dr. Sukanya Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Of Numbers, Bodies, and Blood: Fin de Siècle Gothic, Indian Political Economy and the English Electorate”
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