‘The Artist and the Writer’, Saturday 29th November, IES, Senate House, London

Posted on September 9, 2014 by marylshannon

The Artist and the Writer: second symposium of the Romantic Illustration Network

Saturday 29 November 2014, 10 – 5pm

Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU

Lynn Shepherd (Richardson scholar and novelist), Tim Fulford (De Montfort), Sandro Jung (Ghent); Sophie Thomas (Ryerson, Canada); Nicky Watson (Open University); Mary L. Shannon (Roehampton). Supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS): http://www.bavs.ac.uk/

Registration required: details, and full programme, to be advertised soon.

T: 0207 862 8675

E: ies@sas.ac.uk

W: ies.sas.ac.uk for map and directions.

New Resource Added: Illustrated Satirical Pamphlets of the Queen Caroline Affair

Posted on August 11, 2014 by marylshannon

RIN member Mathew Crowther asks me to alert network members to the fact that he has created a small digital archive of material which is freely available via his wonderful blog, https://theprintshopwindow.wordpress.com.

It contains copies of the illustrated portions of some of the rarer satirical pamphlets in his collection which were published during the Queen Caroline affair of 1820-1. A number of these items are not even listed on COPAC, so it is very likely that this is the only online archive of such material.

Find it at:

https://theprintshopwindow.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/the-print-shop-window-archive-of-satirical-pamphlets/

Funding secured for next Symposium from British Association of Victorian Studies

Posted on August 5, 2014 by marylshannon

We are delighted to announce that the next symposium of the Romantic Illustration Network, on Saturday 29th November 2014 at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, will be supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS): http://www.bavsuk.org.

It was clear from our first symposium in June (see an earlier post for the event report) that much important work on book illustration has been done within Victorian studies, and part of RIN’s role will be to establish fruitful dialogue between researchers working across the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries.

Further details for November’s event will be announced soon via this blog.

New Resources added: Bibliography entries

Posted on July 24, 2014 by marylshannon

RIN member Paul Barnaby, of the Walter Scott Digital Archive, had made the following suggestions for the RIN bibliography, which I’ve now added:

Garside, Peter. ‘Illustrating the Waverley Novels: Scott, Scotland, and the London Print Trade, 1819-1836’, The Library, 11 (2010), 168-96.

Garside, Peter. ‘Print Illustrations and the Cultural Materialism of Scott’s Waverley Novels’, in British Literature and Print Culture, ed. Sandro Jung (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013), pp. 125-57.

(This essay collection also has a chapter by Sandro Jung on illustrations of Thomson’s The Seasons in the 1790s.)

Hill, Richard. ‘The Illustration of the Waverley Novels: Scott and Popular Illustrated Fiction’, Scottish Literary Review, 1.1 (2009), 69-88.

Hill, Richard. Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)

Westover, Paul. ‘Illustration, Historicism, and Travel: The Legacy of Sir Walter Scott’, in Necromanticism: Traveling to Meet the Dead, 1750-1860 (Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 142-73.

If you have any suggestions for texts we should include on the Bibliography page, or would like us to add your book or article, please email me at Mary.Shannon@roehampton.ac.uk.

Seminar ‘Early popular visual culture: dissemination networks and image traditions, 1700-1914’.

Posted on July 14, 2014 by marylshannon

An invitation from Dr. Jeroen Salman,
Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University:

Seminar: ‘Early popular visual culture: dissemination networks and image traditions, 1700-1914’.

Location and date
Bijzondere Collecties UvA, Turfmarkt 129, 1012 GC, Amsterdam, Van Leerzaal
Friday 26 September, 9.30 until 16.30

Registration

Information and registration
Dafna Ruppin (d.ruppin@uu.nl)

Outline
This seminar is about image traditions in print and film culture as well as on the infrastructure, that is the production, distribution and reception, behind popular media such as penny prints, photographs and early movies (from the 18^th until the 20^th century). The leading questions are: In what way did images of narratives, fictional heroes, national identities and colonial cultures change over time, and how was this influenced by the context in which these images were produced? Who was responsible for the publication and production of these texts and images and what were their motives? What were the networks behind the production and distribution and how functioned the reception (reading, using, reviewing) of this material?

This seminar is a joint collaboration between two Utrecht projects: ‘Popularisation and Media Strategies (1700-1900)’ lead by Jeroen Salman and ‘The Nation and Its Other: The Emergence of Modern Popular Imagery and Representations’ lead by Frank Kessler. These projects are financed by NWO and part of the Cultural Dynamics research program.

The program of the seminar comprises keynote lectures by John Plunkett (Exeter) and Alexandra Franklin (Oxford) and lectures by the members of the two research groups: Frank Kessler, Sarah Dellmann, Dafna Ruppin, Jeroen Salman and Talitha Verheij.

Besides scholars in the field, we also invite research master students and PhD-students to participate (they will receive credits for it: 1 ECTS). The students have to prepare for this seminar by reading articles, formulating questions and handing in an abstract of a recent paper/thesis.

During lunch time the participants will be offered a guided tour through the exhibition ‘Sterke verhalen’ (‘Tall tales’).

New Resource Added: Walter Scott Illustrations

Posted on July 10, 2014 by marylshannon

The following resources were suggested by Paul Barnaby, Project Officer for the Walter Scott Digital Archive, which draws upon the collections of Edinburgh University Library.

1) Walter Scott Image Collection (Paul Barnaby):

http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/imdata.html

This is an image library of just over 1000 illustrations to the works of Walter Scott and other Scott-related publications. It is part of a larger site, the Walter Scott Digital Archive.

2) Illustrating Scott: A Database of Printed Illustrations to the Waverley Novels, 1814-1901 (Peter Garside and Ruth McAdams):

http://illustratingscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/

Blake, The Flaxmans, and Romantic Sociability: 18-19 July 2014

Posted on July 2, 2014 by marylshannon

RIN member Luisa Calè (Birkbeck) asks me to post the following:

I hope you are enjoying the summer. I am writing to invite you to attend

Blake, The Flaxmans, and Romantic Sociability
18-19 July 2014
Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London

Registration and Programme:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/blake-the-flaxmans-and-romantic-sociability

Blake’s sociability encompasses the real, the satyrical, and the imaginary. His visionary company includes ‘Companions from Eternity’, corporeal friends, and spiritual enemies. From the salon to the moon, across the geographies of ‘a certain island near by a mighty continent’, a mighty cast of characters intermingle. Enter Steelyard the Lawgiver and Mrs Nannicantipot, Suction the Epicurean, Sipsop the Pythagorean, Quid the Cynic, Inflammable Gas the Wind Finder, Etruscan Column the Antiquarian, Aradobo the Dean of Morocco, Obtuse Angle, Tilly Lally the Siptippidist, Miss Gittipin, Gibble Gabble, and Scopprell. Their imaginary, emergent, and satyrical disciplines include ‘Fissic Follogy, Pistinology, Aridology, Arography, Transmography, Phizography, Hogamy HAtomy,& Hall that’. This wild jamboree is a record of the convivial friendship and patronage of John and Ann Flaxman, Harriet and her husband the Reverend Anthony Stephen Mathew, who provided the young artist with ‘The Bread of sweet Thought and the Wine of Delight’.

Starting from the world of An Island in the Moon, this conference illuminates Blake’s relationship with the ‘Sculptor of Eternity’ and his circle from the early days to the ‘Regions of Reminiscence’, from the 1780s to the 1820s, following the Flaxmans across the channel, into the cosmopolitan networks of the Grand Tour, in order to recover the material cultures, sites, and dynamic forms of their Romantic sociability.

Conference organizers: Helen Bruder and Luisa Calè
Contact: blakeflaxman@bbk.ac.uk
To book a place to attend the conference, you need to follow the link at the bottom of the website.

Romantic Circles Gallery of Romantic Visual Culture

Posted on June 23, 2014 by marylshannon

Theresa Kelley and Richard C. Sha forward a link to their Romantic Circles Gallery of Romantic Visual Culture (see below). They say:

‘If anyone has interest in pulling together an exhibition of roughly ten images into an exhibit, please send us a proposal. The following link shows what we already have:

http://www.rc.umd.edu/gallery/exhibits

Here is the rationale for the gallery:

http://www.rc.umd.edu/gallery/about ‘

For further information, contact

Richard C. Sha [rcsha@american.edu] or Theresa Kelly ‎[tkelley@wisc.edu]‎