The North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies

A forum for academic staff and graduate students with research interests in the literature, history and culture of the long eighteenth century.  Please come and join us.

14th October 2011, 3-5pm, Lipman Building 121, Northumbria University

Simon Moore (Newcastle), '“A Conventicle of Guts”: Reading the Religious into Restoration Satire'
Gary Kelly (Newcastle), 'A “True People's Book” (Carlyle): Howie's Scots Worthies through the Really Long Eighteenth Century'

2nd December 2011, 3-5pm, Culture Lab, Newcastle University (Co-hosted with Literature Speaker series)

Helen Williams (Northumbria) '“Pause on the Landing”: Digressive Experiments in Tristram Shandy and Journey around my Room'
Jane Moody (York), 'Byron and Censorship'

13th January 2012, 3-5pm, St. Chad's College, Durham University

Carissa Bussard (Durham), 'The Literary Merit of Reformed Romance: A Look at Amorous Intrigues, Passionate Wit and Gender/Identity Construction in the works of Eliza Haywood'
Eliza O'Brien (Northumbria), 'The Fiction of Sympathy: Adam Smith and the Romantic Novel'

9th March 2012, 3-5pm, Lipman Building 121, Northumbria University

Adam Smith (Sheffield), '“Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators”: Text as Spectacle in the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts'
Meiko O'Halloran (Newcastle), 'Parodying Romantic Poets: James Hogg, The Poetic Mirror, and the Literary Marketplace'

11th May 2012, 3-5pm, St Chad's College, Durham University 

Helen Stark (Newcastle), '“Nation [as] moral essence, not ... geographical arrangement”: Burke's hierarchies of inclusion and exclusion in the 1790s'
Helen O'Connell (Durham), 'Bad Sociability: Tea-Drinking in Ireland in the Early Nineteenth Century'

29th June 2012, 3-5pm, Culture Lab, Newcastle University (Co-hosted with Literature Speaker series)

Andrew Lacey (Newcastle), 'Percy Bysshe Shelley's Philosophy of Death, 1813-21'
James Watt (York), 'Cockney cosmopolitanism'

The North East Forum is run by the Universities of Northumbria, Newcastle and Durham.  Please email richard.terry@northumbria.ac.uk,  meiko.ohalloran@newcastle.ac.uk  or g.m.skinner@durham.ac.uk for further details.