Romantic Voice
The Romantic Voice: Current Studies in Romanticism
Postgraduate Conference, University of Warwick
Thursday, 26 April 2007
Keynote speaker Professor J.C.C. Mays (University College, Dublin)
Workshop, "Coleridge and Voice", provided by the CAPITAL Centre
Registration: 9.00-9.30 First session, 9.30-10.45 Mr Anthony J. Howell (University of Swansea) A Green Voice for Romanticism: Recognising the Speaker in John Clare's ‘Swordy Well’ Miss Helen Boyles (Open University) The Embarrassment of Methodist Enthusiasm in Wordsworth’s Peter Bell Mr Gregory Ledbetter (Oxford Brookes University) The Unnamed Vocation: Coleridge and Intellectual Revolution Second session, 11.00-12.15 Mr Andrew Webb (University of Warwick) Keats, Edward Thomas and the Broken Voice Dr Barbara Straumann (University of Zurich) Romantic Voice and Resonance in Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy Mr Michael Farrell (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford) Conflicting Voices in Blake’s Illustrations to Young’s ‘Night Thoughts’
CAPITAL Workshop, 1.30-2.45: Mrs Judith Phillips and Mr Roger Hyams, Coleridge and the Voice
Special session, 3.00-4.00 Professor Jon Mee (University of Warwick) The Trials of Thomas Paine Third session, 4.15-5.15 Mr Peter Spratley (University of Warwick) Wordsworth and the Voice of Anti-Catholicism Miss Imke Heuer (University of York) ‘Without my name, but without any adopted name’ – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Playwriting and Female Aristocratic Authorship Keynote lecture, 5.30-6.30 Professor J.C.C. Mays (University College, Dublin) Coleridge and Yeats: The Romantic Voice
This conference is supported financially by the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and by the Humanities Research Centre.