Middle Modernity Events 2009-10
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Lecture Series
Fall 2009:
Censorship and Self-Censorship in John Clare's Poetry
A Lecture by Eric Robinson
Thursday, October 8th, 2009, 4 p.m. 7191 Helen C. White
Eric H. Robinson is a literary scholar, an economic historian, and a historian of science, technology, and economics. He is the editor of The Collected Poems of John Clare in nine volumes from Oxford University Press. In 2006, he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the highest recognition from the Society for the History of Technology.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Dictionary of American Regional English and the Middle Modernity Group.
A Talk by Paul Saint-Amour
Thursday, November 19th, 2009, 4 p.m.
Professor of English at Penn, Paul Saint-Amour will be speaking on modernism and copyright, a talk based on his introduction to the forthcoming volume from Oxford University Press’s Modernist Literature & Culture Series, Modernism & Copyright. His talk will address the relationship between international copyright law and international modernism, with an emphasis on the transatlantic asymmetries of both.
Paul Saint-Amour works on Victorian and modernist literature, with special interests in the novel, law, trauma, and visual culture studies. Having received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Stanford, he taught at Pomona College for ten years before joining the Penn faculty. He has been a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Center for the Humanities at Cornell, and the National Humanities Center. He is the author of The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination (Cornell U P, 2003), which won the MLA Prize for a First Book, and of articles in Comparative Literatures Studies, Diacritics, James Joyce Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity, Nineteenth-Century Studies, and a special “Counterfactuals” issue of Representations that he recently co-edited with Catherine Gallagher and Mark Maslan. A piece on total war and Gothic temporality is forthcoming in Gothic and Modernism, ed. John Paul Riquelme (Johns Hopkins U P). He is currently at work on an edited volume, Modernism and Copyright, and a book-length project entitled Archive, Bomb, Civilian: Modernism in the Shadow of Total War.
There will be a roundtable for this event (more details to come). We will also be reading a selection from Paul Saint-Amour's first book for our November reading group.
This event is co-sponsored by the Modernisms/Modernities Colloquium and the Middle Modernity Group.
Reading Group
The Middle Modernity Reading Group meets informally several times during the semester. The first meeting will be on Thursday, October 29th, at 6 p.m. in the cellar of PortaBella. The reading for this month comes from Richard Altick's The English Common Reader.
First section of Altick.
Second section of Altick.
The second meeting will take place on Thursday, November 12th, at 6 p.m. in the cellar of Portabella. We will be reading the introduction to Paul Saint-Amour's first book, The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination.
You can find a pdf of the introduction here.
Readings are also available in the English department library.
Spring 2010
Shelley's Atheism
A Talk by Colin Jager
Thursday, February 4th, 2010, 4 p.m. 7191 Helen C. White
Details TBA. This talk is co-sponsored by the Middle Modernity Group and the Contemporary Literature Colloquium.
The Middle Modernity Group will also be sponsoring a talk by Elaine Freedgood, who will be the keynote speaker at this year's MadLit conference. Her lecture will be on Thursday, March 4th, 2010. More details coming soon.
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