Department of English Language and Literature Seminar The Author in Nineteenth – Century Literary Culture : Romanticism to Formalism Speaker : Andrea Selleri Date: January 16, 2020 Time: 14.40 - 16.00 Location: G 160   The Author in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture: Romanticism to Formalism The significance of the relationship between the author and the work is among the most contentious issues in the theory of criticism. In an anglophone context, […]

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Time: 14:40 to 16:00, Monday 20 January 2020. Location: G 160   Aleksandar Stevic Hating Rubens: Charlotte Brontë, Anti-Catholicism, and the Limits of Female Self-Fashioning in Victorian England   What form can female development take in a culture committed to severely limiting the rights of women? What kinds of narratives about female education and growth can be produced by a […]

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Time: 14:40 to 16:00, Thursday 23 January 2020. Location: G 160   Deni Kasa Learning after Athens: Equity, Grace, and Prophecy in Milton’s Paradise Regained   Although Milton’s poetry is now understood to be republican, Paradise Regained poses a problem: it rejects Athenian learning in favour of the prophetic inspiration of the Holy Spirit. On this evidence, criticism has increasingly […]

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Time: 14:40 to 16:00, Thursday 30 January 2020. Location: G 160   Florence Hazrat Pause for Thought: Brackets in Renaissance Romance When opening a Renaissance book, it is brackets which populate the pages. What was it about these signs which attracted early modern writers? And why were they particularly prominent in romances, those stories about knights lost in magical woods? […]

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