Spring seminar series 2012

The Suffrage Network: Transatlantic Exchange and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Reform Thought

• 7 December 2011
• Speaker: Professor Leslie Butler (Dartmouth College)

Locke in Pentameters: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Liberalism

• 25 January 2012
• Speaker: Dr Anna Barton (University of Sheffield)

Politics, Theology, Theatricality: Christian Socialism and the Performing Arts in Late-Victorian London

• 8 February 2012
• Speaker: Dr Peter Yeandle (University of Lancaster)

‘Prayers, hymns, processions and other outwardly accompaniments’: Performing Religion in Shakespeare on the Late Victorian Stage

• 22 February 2012
• Speaker: Anjna Chouhan

'Millions of single women fading with ennui': Boredom, Feminism, and Superfluous Women in Victorian England

• 22 February 2012
• Speaker: Ian Higgins

Oscar Wilde and Colour

• 22 February 2012
• Speaker: Nazia Parveen

Walter Pater’s American Afterlife: The Mosher Editions

• 7 March 2012
• Speaker: Professor Laurel Brake (Birkbeck, University of London)

“A Peep at the Natives”: Displayed Peoples, Exhibitions and the Natural History of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain

• 21 March 2012
• Speaker: Dr Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham)

George Eliot’s Emotional Eaters and Translations of G. M. W. Reynolds in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

• 27 March 2012
• Speaker: Saswati Halder and Dr Sucheta Bhattacharya (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

Henry James, Lionel Trilling and the Imagination of Disaster

• 9 May 2012
• Speaker: Professor Adrian Poole (University of Cambridge)

The Beauties of Charles Dickens

• 23 May 2012
• Speaker: Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (University of Oxford)