Reading and Reception Studies Seminar

A seminar organized by the Research Project on the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe (RBAE)

Convenor: Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA <Elinor.Shaffer@sas.ac.uk>

Research Project Director and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS),

University of London

Topics relating to reading and reception studies are considered in this seminar, which takes place in the School of Advanced Study and Clare Hall, Cambridge, under the auspices of the RBAE Research Project. The informal sessions consider both critical approaches (all varieties of reader-response theory and critical reception in books, periodicals and the work of other authors) and material approaches (history-of-the-book topics relating to publication, distribution and circulation). Translation is also a major concern. Case studies of all kinds are welcome. The seminar is also hospitable to those working on European authors in Britain. Papers need not be confined to Europe. There will be opportunities to publish and to contribute to the Research Project, to give a paper to a seminar, or simply to air ideas and discuss work-in-progress with other interested parties.

Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5.30-7.30 pm, in the School of Advanced Study, 2nd floor, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1 (unless otherwise indicated). Anyone interested in participating should contact Dr Elinor Shaffer at the above e-mail address. Other Colloquia and Seminars are held at Clare Hall, Cambridge (indicated in green), the IGRS, and at European venues.

Listed below are also events organized by the IGRS Working Group for the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature in Britain, of which Dr Shaffer is also convenor.

Please note that during the rewiring of Senate House the Project Seminars will be held in Stewart House, at the entrance to the Senate House car-park off Russell Square.

All are welcome!

SUMMER TERM 2008

Tuesday, 6 May, 5.30-7.30 pm
Room 273, School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1
Prof. David Charlton (Royal Holloway, London)

‘Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini: Rejection and Its Complexities (London, 1853)’

Thursday, 22 May, 4.30-6.00 pm (NB: amended time)
The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge
Prof. Michael Hollington (Albi and UNSW)

‘The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe’

Tuesday, 3 June, 5.30-7.30 pm
Room 273, School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1
Prof. Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary, London)

‘The Idea of Life in Rousseau and Novalis’

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SPRING TERM 2008

Tuesday, 22 January, 5.30-7.30 pm

Room 273, School of Advanced Study, 32 Russell Square, London WC1

Dr Francesca Billiani (Manchester)

‘The politics of the Italian Gothic and Fantastic in the late nineteenth-century Italian novel’

Tuesday, 5 February, 5.30-7.30 pm

Room 273, School of Advanced Study, 32 Russell Square, London WC1

Prof. Nick Ceramella (Perugia)

‘Everything you wanted to know about the background to Lady Chatterley’s Lover and never dared even dream possible’

Tuesday, 19 February, 5.30-7.30 pm

Room 273, School of Advanced Study, 32 Russell Square, London WC1

Dr Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln)

‘Moral character and physiognomy in Lavater’s theories and Blake’s Creation Myth’

Thursday, 6 March, 5.00-7.00 pm

The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge

Dr Alexander Regier (King’s College, Cambridge)

‘The Spell of Orthography: Johann Georg Hamann’s Apologies (1773)’

- Other Reception Studies events in the Spring Term -

Saturday, 12 January, 3 pm

Room N336, Senate House (North block), Malet St, London WC1

Inaugural Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture in Comparative Literature

Prof. Susan Bassnett (Warwick)

‘Travelling through translation’

Further details: www.bcla.org/lecture.htm.

Thursday, 7 February, 5.30 for 6pm

Room 273, School of Advanced Study, 32 Russell Square, London WC1

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

Working Group on the Reception of German/Austrian/Swiss Literature

Prof. Martina Lauster (Exeter)

‘German and Austrian sociological sketches within the European feuilleton culture of the 1830s and 40s’

Saturday-Sunday, 8-9 March, Trinity College, Oxford

Colloquium on the Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe

Further details: www.oscholars.com/Oxford08/Toc/toc1.htm.

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AUTUMN TERM 2007

Tuesday 23 October, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST274

Prof. Stefania Michelucci (Genoa)

‘D. H. Lawrence, World War I and Myth’

Tuesday 13 November, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST274

Dr Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway)

‘Sleeping Beauties and Femmes Fatales: Gabriele D’Annunzio and Tennyson’

Thursday 29November, 5.00-7.00 pm

The Meeting Room, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge

Dr Robert Ackerman (Clare Hall)

‘AnOutsider’s View of Classical Scholarship: Karl Otfried Müller in Britain’

Tuesday 11 December, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST274

Due to illness Prof. Jordanova’s scheduled paper will be postponed to 2008 and replaced by

Anthony Cummins (University College, Oxford)

‘Emile Zola’s cheap English dress: the Vizetelly Translations, late-Victorian Print Culture and the Crisis of Literary Value’

~ Further Autumn Term Events ~

Wednesday 3 October, 7.00-8.30 pm

The British Academy, 10Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

Prof. Geoffrey Hartman (Yale)

‘The Contest between Poet and Priest’

http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2007/hartman/index.html

Thursday 18 October, 5.30-7.30 pm

School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London

Room ST273

IGRS Working Group Seminar

Prof. Hermann J. Real (Münster)

‘Shipwreck with Spectators: Watching the Pain of Others in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History’

Thursday 8 November, 10.00 am -6.00 pm

Chawton House Library, Alton, Hampshire

Remapping Austen: Jane Austen in Europe and Beyond

One-day colloquium and launch of The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe.

Click here for further details.