‘“That real and animating form which guided the geniuses at Athens”: James “Hermes” Harris and the Problem of “Taste”’ / ‘Progressive Maternal Voices: Women’s Fiction in the Revolutionary Decade, 1790-1810’
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Research Seminar
Seminar leaders: Ros Ballaster, Nicole Pohl, David Taylor, Carly Watson
Week 2: 5 May, 5.30pm
Julia S. Carlson (University of Cincinnati), ‘Printing, Folding, & Posting the Abolitionist Word: William Cowper, Thomas Clarkson, & Ballad Remediation’
Week 4: 19 May, 5.30pm
Emily Senior (Cambridge)
‘Colonial Ecologies of the Book’
Week 6: 2 June, 12.30pm (sandwich lunch provided)
Anna Brunton (Oxford), ‘“that real and animating form which guided the geniuses at Athens”: James “Hermes” Harris and the Problem of “Taste”’
Aditi Upmanyu (Oxford), ‘Progressive Maternal Voices: Women’s Fiction in the Revolutionary Decade, 1790-1810’
All seminars in Room 10.303, Schwarzman Centre.
Speaker(s): Anna Brunton (Oxford), Aditi Upmanyu (Oxford)
Series: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
Department: English (Department)
Organiser: Prof. David Taylor, Prof. Nicole Pohl, and Dr Carly Watson