Reception Studies Seminar
A Seminar on problems of reception is offered at the School of Advanced Study under the auspices of the Research Project on the Reception of British Authors in Europe and the Institute of Romance Studies.
This informal study group considers 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 study group is also hospitable to those working on European authors in Britain. Nor need papers 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 works in progress to other interested parties.
Meetings are open to all colleagues, research fellows and postgraduate students of the University of London. External visitors are welcome by agreement.
Autumn Term Dates 2000
November 30th, 2000
Francesca Billiani (University of Reading)
Translators, Writers and Publishers
The Reception of English and American Fiction in Italy
in the 1930s
5.30-7.30 at the School of Advanced Study
Spring Term 2001
January 30th, 2001
Marta Guirao (University College London)
The Reception of David Lodge in Spain
5.30-7.30, Room 358 at the School of Advanced Study
February 19th, 2001
Dr. Daniela Caselli (Manchester Metropolitan)
Constructions of Dante in Samuel Beckett's Work
Room 103 at the School of Advanced Study
February 27th, 2001
Dr Mary Anne Perkins (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
Where is (and where was) "Europe"?
Self-definitions from the nineteenth century to the present
5.30-7.30, Room 329 at the School of Advanced Study
Summer Term 2001
May 9th, 2001
Dr Wim Van Mierlo (School of Advanced Study)
Of Writers and Readers: Is There a Link between Production and Reception of Literary Texts?
5.00-7.00, Room 357 at the School of Advanced Study
May 15th, 2001
Tore Rem (Christ Church)
The English Ibsen: The Book, the Stage
and the Issue of Censorship
5.30-7.30, Room 358 at the School of Advanced Study
Autumn Term Dates 2001
October 16th
Dr Susanne Schmid (Free University Berlin)
Shelley’s Reception in Germany
Venue: Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square
October 30th
Dr Lorna Hardwick (Open University)
Sources and Methods for Researching the Reception of
Ancient Greek Drama on the Modern Stage
Venue: Room 265, Senate House
November 13th
Dr Angus J. Wrenn (King's College)
Henry James and the Second Empire: French Literature and 'The Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Wings of the Dove'
Venue: Room 265, Senate House
November 27th
Dr Lana Asfour (New College, Oxford)
Sterne in France, 1760-1800
Venue: Room 104, Senate House
December 11th
Prof. Robert K. Weninger (Oxford Brookes University)
James Joyce: German Critical Databases
Venue: Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square
Spring Term Dates 2002
January 22nd
Joint seminar with the Research Centre in the History of the Book (IES) and the
Institute of Germanic Studies
Mr Graham Jefcoate
(Visiting Research Fellow, IES; Director designate, Staatsbibliothek Berlin)
German Printing and Bookselling in 18th-Century London: Evidence and Interpretation
Venue: Room 329, School of Advanced Study, Senate House
Please note: This seminar will begin at 5 pm and conclude at 6.30 pm
February 5th
Dr Michael John Kooy
(University of Warwick)
Reading Coleridge in Nineteenth-Century France
Venue: Room 349, School of Advanced Study
March 12th
Prof. Richard Cardwell
(University of Nottingham)
Byron and Spain: The Spanish Byron and his Strong Precursor
Venue: Room 349, School of Advanced Study
AUTUMN TERM 2002
October 8th
Prof. Roderick Beaton (King's College London)
'Stranger than Fiction': The Modern Greek Novel and its Reception in English
November 12th
Dr Duncan Large (Swansea)
'Sterne-Bilder': The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Germany
November 26th
Prof. Terence Cave (St John's, Oxford)
Mignon's Afterlife in the Fiction of George Eliot
December 3rd
Prof. Alison Sinclair (Clare College, Cambridge)
Spain's (selective) Love Affair with England
Anyone interested in participating in any way should contact
Dr Elinor Shaffer.
Reading: Histories and Theories
A programme of seminars will be offered for postgraduate students in the University of London, with four or five meetings each term. In Autumn Term 2000-1 we shall meet fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons 5.00-7.00pm
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This is a continuation of a Seminar last held in the Academic Session 1998-99. This year the focus will be on 'histories'. The Autumn term will be concerned with the obstacles presented to reading by political, religious and national differences. The aim of the Project is to produce a book series on the reception of particular British authors of historical works in Europe (e.g. Burke, Gibbon, Hume).
Autumn Term Dates 2000
October 25th, 2000
Prof. Andrew Skinner (Glasgow)
Sir James Steuart and the Reception of Jacobite Thought in Europe.
November 8th, 2000
Professor Francesca Bugliani Knox (IULM, Feltre, Italy)
The Secret History of the 'Spiritual Exercises' of St Ignatius in England.
November 22nd, 2000
Dr Evelyn Cruickshank (Institute of Historical Research)
Jacobite Exiles: the first Europeans?
December 6th, 2000
Dr S.M.G. Reynolds (Institute of Historical Research)
The Reception of British Medieval History and the Problems of Comparative History.
Spring Term Dates 2001
January 31st, 2001
Dr. Maike Oergel (University of Nottingham)
Saxon or Celt? King Alfred and King Arthur as English National Heroes in the 19th Century.
May 24th, 2001
Prof. Rüdiger Görner (Director of the Institute of Germanic Studies)
Edmund Burke and Golo Mann's Views of 'The Conservative Revolution'
5.30-7.30, Robertson Room
at the Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square
Autumn Term Dates 2001
Tuesday, 9 October 2001
Prof. Wolfgang Iser (Constance & UC Irvine)
The Two-Sidedness of Humanistic Discourse: Context Sensitivity and its Feedback
held at The Institute of Germanic Studies
29 Russell Square
Thursday, 8 November 2001
Prof. Iser delivered a second lecture
The Resurgence of the Aesthetic
to open the Colloquium
'Theory of Literary Reception: The Act of Reading and After'
held at the Institute of Germanic Studies, 8-9 November. The lecture was at 5.30 for 6 p.m.
For a full programme of the Colloquium on 9th November see the separate notice on the website of the IGS or RBAE
Tuesday, 18 December 2001
POSTPONED to 5th FEBRUARY 2002
Dr Michael John Kooy (University of Warwick)
Reading Coleridge in Nineteenth-Century France
This Seminar took place as part of the Spring 2002 Reception Studies Series
Spring Term Dates 2002
Tuesday, 8 January 2002
Prof. Jerome McGann (Royal Holloway & University of Virginia)
Tennyson and the Poetry of Complicity
Tuesday, 15 January 2002
Prof. Peter France (University of Edinburgh)
Writing the History of Translation
Problems in the historiography of translation on the basis of Prof. France's work as general editor of the forthcoming
Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
Tuesday, 19 February 2002
Prof. Peter Jones
(formerly Director, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh)
Early Responses to David Hume: 1740-1790
Tuesday, 19 March 2002
Prof. Ian Donaldson
(King's College, Cambridge)
National Biography and the Arts of Memory
THIS PAPER HAS BEEN PUBLISHED
SUMMER TERM 2002
Tuesday, 30 April
Dr Tom Freeman (University of Cambridge)
Was God English? John Foxe, Jean Crespin and the Protestant Martyrological Tradition
Tuesday, 14 May
Dr Karen O'Brien (University of Warwick)
Catharine Macaulay's Attack on Progress
Tuesday, 28 May
Rescheduled for Autumn Term 2002
Prof. Sally Shuttleworth (University of Sheffield)
'Tickling Babies': The Periodical Press in the Nineteenth Century and the Development of 'Baby Science'
AUTUMN TERM 2002
October 1st
Dr Benedikt Stuchtey (German Historical Institute, London)
German Perceptions of the British Empire in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
October 22nd
Prof. Sally Shuttleworth (Sheffield)
'Tickling Babies': The Periodical Press in the Nineteenth Century and the Development of 'Baby Science'
November 19th
Dr Carole Rodier (Brasenose, Oxford)
The Orientalism of Sir Richard Burton
December 10th
Dr Tom Hubbard (National Library of Scotland)
'Furth of the Isles': Nineteenth Century Translations of Walter Scott's Poetry
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Unless otherwise stated: School of Advanced Study, 3rd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. |
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Dr Elinor Shaffer, School of Advanced Study |
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020 7862-8667 |
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eshaffer@sas.ac.uk |