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SUMMARY:Sentimental Journeys: Andromache in the Torrid Zone
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DESCRIPTION:The Trojan woman Andromache was ubiquitous in eighteenth-centu
 ry British culture\, at home on the stage and page\, in music and material
  culture\, high-toned history painting and everyday ephemera. While Androm
 ache’s most striking receptions today often connect her with post-war di
 splacement and the plight of refugees\, in the eighteenth century she was 
 a thoroughly domesticated subject\, bound up with discourses of hearth and
  home in a period when female conduct was under intense and changing press
 ures. ‘Domestick Virtues concern all the world\,’ as the Spectator obs
 erved\, ‘and there is no one living who is not interested that Andromach
 e should be an imitable Character.’ Yet toward the end of the century\, 
 English writers increasingly sent out Andromache figures into foreign part
 s. How was this domestic paragon appropriated and deployed in scenes of co
 lonial encounter and empire building? What might her travels bring to conv
 ersations in comparative and world literature? This lecture addresses such
  questions through the case of John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative\, of a F
 ive Years’ Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796)\, a
  bestselling depiction of a slave plantation society\, and a text whose ha
 bits of classical quotation have gone largely unremarked.
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LOCATION:Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies\, Ioannou Cent
 re for Classical and Byzantine Studies 66 St Giles'  Oxford Oxfordshire OX
 1 3LU United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Miranda Stanyon (University of Melbourne)
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