Friday 15th May 2015
Venue: Chawton House
Approaches to genre, form, and reading practice
9.00 am – 5.30 pm
A one-day symposium organised by Professor Stephen Bygrave and Dr Laura Davies, University of Southampton
Keynote Speakers
Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary University of London)
William Gibson (Oxford Brookes University)
Jon Mee (University of York)
Recent work on dissent, evangelicalism, Methodism, secularisation, the social practices of religion, life-writing, and other topics has brought to light a wealth of material and has begun to ask new questions of so-called `religious texts’. This symposium aims to reflect on the relationships between religion and literature in the long eighteenth century and on the research approaches that can productively be used to investigate them.
The day will be organised into three consecutive panels, each focusing on a theme introduced by the keynote presentations.
Religious Reading (Isabel Rivers)
http://www.sed.qmul.ac.uk/staff/riversi.html
Forms and Genres (William Gibson)
http://history.brookes.ac.uk/People/Academic/prof.asp?ID=661
Institutions and Associations (Jon Mee)
http://www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-studies/our-staff/jonmee/
Click here to see a provisional programme
Tickets (including lunch and refreshments): £35; Students/Friends/Unwaged £30
Register here