Nineteenth-Century Studies at ARU

03/02/2021

We are pleased to announce the schedule for our next seminar series. This will take place on MS Teams and a calendar invite will be sent out shortly before each session to everyone who has registered. All are very welcome. If you have any queries, then please don’t hesitate to email [email protected] or [email protected].

Feb 8, 12-1pm, Dr. Duc Dau (University of Western Australia): “Love is God”: The Song of Songs in the work of Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy. Please click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc26ackU0WoiXcgqgR01UUI5uag02j6X4b5T_v5sIjNECZpEw/viewform

Feb 22, 4.30-5.30pm, Dr. Brian Murray (King’s College, London): The Journeys of ‘Kalulu’ and Saleh Bin Osman: African Travellers in the Imperial Archive. Please click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMTh0EF1ox0pUNwmVi3JyG5SUEfhrSz1yHcFPtsmu15jiYKA/viewform

March 8, 4.30-5.30pm, Professor emer. Rosemary Mitchell (Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Leeds Trinity University): A Catholic and Continental Catherine? Exploring Victorian Representations of Catherine of Aragon. Please click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfb9khjdDTxv8X5q_Rhe1oN3pRCqx8HSWLXOH6BHrZxXgW37A/viewform

March 22, 4.30-5.30pm, Dr. Stephen Basdeo (Richmond University, London): “A Plague of Blue Locusts”: Police Brutality in 1830s Newspapers, Periodicals, and Fiction. Please click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqEk02uq0v0za__mZc4b0VRzn67dwSS3b46Ym1NlUKWGPa7Q/viewform

April 12, 4.30-5.30pm, Professor Fiona Price (University of Chichester): “Real, Solemn History”: Historical Fiction Before Scott. Please click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIsfVEmXrAGO3DVso-Q9szKlqp5A13Z0yHyUSU2XDBp2YCLQ/viewform

04/11/2020

I am excited to announce that we have a new seminar series coming up. This will run through the academic year and begin with the three talks listed below. These will all take place on Zoom on Mondays between 5-6pm. If you would like to attend a session, please email [email protected] or [email protected] to request the Zoom link. All are very welcome.

9th November. Dr. Simon Marsden Apocalypse Not Quite Yet: Waiting for the End in Mid-Victorian Literature

23rd Nov Dr. Helen Kingstone How to get an overview on the Napoleonic Wars: from panorama paintings to Thomas Hardy’s The Dynasts.

7th Dec Dr. Gavin Budge Charlotte M Yonge, Religious Conversion and Victorian Modernity

04/05/2019

Edwin Marr will be delivering his lecture “‘The Obnoxious Railroad’: Railway Time and Space in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell” to the Gaskell Society in London, 11th May 2019. Full details can be found here:

Unit member and PhD student Edwin Marr will be speaking at the next Gaskell Society meeting on Saturday 11th May. His paper, ‘The Obnoxious Railroad”: Railway Time and Space in the Work…

26/03/2019

This is just an update to say that the next session of the Dostoyevsky reading group will now be on 1st April 17-18:00 in HEL112, rather than in Week 11 as originally advertised to avoid a clash with the Lilias Trotter event. This session will be lead by Chris Lyon.

“I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” For the next academic semester starting in February 2019, we…

15/02/2019

https://nineteenthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/gogol-critical-theory-workshop-contributions-by-our-members/

Recently, we held a critical theory workshop at ARU exploring Gogol’s ‘The Overcoat’ where we all took turns to analyse the short story from a wide variety of different critical s…

26/08/2018

https://nineteenthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2016-17-sem-2-middlemarch/

‘The Balcony at Basle’, from Can You Forgive Her? ‘Whether or no, she, whom you are to forgive, if you can, did or did not belong to the Upper Ten Thousand of this our English wor…

12/07/2018

2018 Postgraduate Symposium
Our Annual Postgraduate Symposium will take place on Thursday 19th July 2018 between 4- 7pm in Helmore 208. Please do join us!

16:00-17:00 Panel 1

Helen Innes, ‘A licensed dealer in legs: John Hollingshead and the principal boys of the Gaiety Theatre, 1868-1886’.

William Lobley, ‘The Macroauthority and Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim’

17:00-17:15 Tea, coffee and cake

17:15-18:45 Panel 2

Gareth Davies, ‘How successful were Victorian attempts to invest the sound of church bells with greater religious significance?’

Saffya Alaoui, Deronda, the flawed master: problematic discipleship in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.

Sophie Phelps, The adult-Child in Dickens’s Fiction

18.45-19:00 Overview of our activities over the past year and looking ahead.

Do join us in the Tram afterwards to continue with discussion!

27/04/2018

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…we can now find something to muse on in the humble daisy, and something to see on a desolate moor. (Branwell Brontë, ‘Thomas Bewick’) The above quotation, taken from Branwell Brontë’s published article in the Halifax Guardian on the Northumbrian artist Thomas Bewick, demonstrates the exte...

12/04/2018

A reminder that there is just one week left to submit your abstracts for our Brontës, Gaskell and the Legacy of Romanticism conference on 1st June.

The Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell and the legacy of Romanticism Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 1st June 2018 Keynote Speaker: Dr Simon Avery (University of Westminster) (Illustration from 1943 R…

02/04/2018

https://nineteenthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/elizabeth-gaskell-and-the-brontes-a-showcase-of-student-reviews/

Last semester, I enjoyed teaching a new 12-week module on Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontës. The module covered the Brontë juvenilia and a number of novels in addition to literary, stage, and cinem…

29/03/2018

A reminder that there is just under a month left to submit your abstracts for our June 2018 conference 'The Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell and the Legacy of Romanticism' in association with the Brontë Society.

The Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell and the legacy of Romanticism Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 1st June 2018 Keynote Speaker: Simon Avery (University of Westminster) (Illustration from 1943 Rand…

08/03/2018

https://nineteenthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/going-on-the-george-eliot-trail/

by Edwin John Moorhouse Marr My first introduction to George Eliot was not an altogether agreeable one. I had to read Adam Bede as part of my undergraduate degree, and I found it symptomatic of all…