Past Events | Department of English

ResVic: A dramatic reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizzaro (1799).

February 2, 2005

ResVic: Paul Youngquist (Penn State University), "The Afro Futurism of DJ Vassa"

January 11, 2005

ResVic: Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate University), "Terrorism and the Humanities" [English Deaprtment Lecture Series event]; workshop on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

November 11, 2004

ResVic: John Richetti (UPenn), Discussion of Daniel Defoe's poetry.

October 28, 2004

ResVic: Matthew Rubery (Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow, UPenn), WIP: "Why Victorian Heroines Read the Shipping News."

September 30, 2004

ResVic: Atlantic Studies Seminar: Linda Colley (Princeton, History), "Moving Beyond the Atlantic: Reconstructing 18th century global lives."

April 20, 2004

ResVic: Juliet Shields (Ohio State University), WIP: "Scotland's to be a bryde."

April 6, 2004

ResVic: William Galperin (Rutgers University), WIP: "Jane Austen's Histories of the Present."

March 24, 2004

ResVic: Michael McKeon (Rutgers University), "The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge."

March 19, 2004

ResVic: Jennifer Snead (UPenn), WIP: "The mind in motion: A review of Harriet Kirkley's A Biographer at Work: Samuel Johnson's Notes for the "Life of Pope" (Bucknell 2002)."

March 2, 2004

ResVic: Ina Ferris (University of Ottawa), "Melancholy and the'Narrative Situation' of History in Post-Enlightenment Scotland."

February 19, 2004

ResVic: Scott Krawczyk (UPenn), WIP: "Siblings in Love: The Wordsworths' Collaborative Relationship."

February 3, 2004

ResVic: Edmund Burke, Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757).

January 20, 2004

ResVic: Discussion: William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty (1753).

December 2, 2003

ResVic: Henry Abelove (Wesleyan University), "The Patriot's Song."

November 17, 2003

ResVic: Scott Krawczyk (UPenn), WIP: "Collaboration in the Wordsworth and Aikin Households."

November 11, 2003

ResVic: Discussion: David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste," "Of Tragedy," "Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing" from Essays Moral, Political and Literary (1742-54).

October 21, 2003

ResVic: Marco Roth (Yale), WIP: "Renovating Virtue: The Problem of Happiness in Wordsworth's Poetry."

October 7, 2003

ResVic: Discussion: Joseph Addison, "Pleasures of the Imagination" (1712) from Spectator No. 411-421; excepts from Shaftesbury's Characteristics (1711)

September 23, 2003

ResVic: Discussion: Samuel Johnson, London (1739) and Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)

March 27, 2003

ResVic: Susan Manning (Edinburgh University), "Grounds for Comparison: A Place for Style in Transatlantic Studies."

March 21, 2003

ResVic: Discussion: Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno (c. 1756-8)

March 6, 2003

ResVic: Jeffrey Cox (University of Colorado), "Cockneys in Tuscany."

February 13, 2003

ResVic: Discussion: William Cowper, The Task (1785) and "Lines Written During a Period in an Asylum" (1774).

February 6, 2003

ResVic: 4:30pm Lecture: "Imperial Legs: Byron, Prosthetics, War Wounds, and National Identity."

January 17, 2003