We are delighted to announce that REGISTRATION is OPEN and the PROGRAMME CONFIRMED for:
‘The Artist and the Writer’ (a Romantic Illustration Network event)
29 November 2014, 10am – 5pm
Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS): http://www.bavs.ac.uk/ and the University of Roehampton.
REGISTRATION is FREE, but places are LIMITED. Register at: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ies-conferences/ArtistWriter
Full programme below, and at https://romanticillustrationnetwork.wordpress.com/events/, where all abstracts will be posted in advance of the event.
We look forward to seeing you in November!
10.00 Registration
10.15 Lynn Shepherd (Richardson scholar and novelist): ‘Reading Pamela, picturing Pamela: Samuel Richardson illustrates his novel’
11.00 tea and coffee
11.15 Sandro Jung (Ghent): ‘Thomas Stothard, Romantic Literature, and the Illustrative Vignette’
12.00 Tim Fulford (De Montfort): ‘William Westall and the Lake Poets’
12.45 sandwich lunch
2.00 Sophie Thomas (Ryerson, Canada): ‘Bardic Exhibitionism: Illustration and the ‘Open’ Text in Blake and Gray’
2.45 tea and coffee
3.15 Mary L. Shannon (Roehampton): ‘What Did Dickens Learn From Romantic Illustration?’
3.45 Ruth Richardson (King’s College London; Cambridge): ‘Dickens, Cruikshank, and Oliver Twist’
4.30 Open discussion
5.00pm Close. Please join us for a drink at a pub nearby.
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