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A Symposium of current CECS Postgraduate Research

19th October, 2002, Huntingdon Room, King's Manor

Literary Unveilings:The Poetics of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Speakers: Simon White, Alison O'Byrne, Sam George and David Higgins

Organiser: Sam George

Programme

10:00-10:30 Coffee and Registration

10:30-10:45 Opening Remarks

10:45-11:15 Simon White: 'Plebeian Poets of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries'

11:15-11:30 Questions

11:30-12:00 Sam George: 'Unveiling the Mysteries of Vegetation: Botany and the Feminine in Eighteenth-Century Literature'

12:00-12:15 Questions

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:15-1:45 Alison O'Byrne: 'London Spied: Writing and Rewriting the Metropolis in the Eighteenth Century'

1:45-2:00 Questions

2:00-2:30 David Higgins: 'The Cult of Genius: Magazines, Readers and the Creative Artist 1802-37'

2:30-2:45 Questions

2:45-3:15 Open Discussion