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 A Day Conference at the King's Manor

Saturday 15th November 2003

The Impolite Eighteenth Century

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Speakers and Commentators: Helen Berry, Seth Denbo, Mina Gorji, Mark Jenner, Lawrence Klein,Hamish Mathison, Annie Richardson, Jonathan White

Academic organiser: Natasha Glaisyer

Recent work on politeness demands that we rethink our understanding of the eighteenth century. If the category of politeness increasingly structures our approach to the period, its writing, representation and history, where does this leave aspects of the eighteenth century usually considered impolite? This interdisciplinary day conference sets out to tackle this question. A series of papers, given by literary scholars, historians and an art historian, will consider visual satire, poetry, gin drinking and incest. The day will end with a round table discussion led by the leading scholar of politeness, Lawrence Klein.

Programme

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-11.30 Mina Gorji (Oxford) "Rude Rhymes and the Rustic Muse: Impoliteness and Native Pastoral"
Hamish Mathison (Sheffield) "Robert Burns, Adam Smith and the Impolite Pastoral"

11.30-12.00 Coffee

12.00-12.45 Annie Richardson (Southampton)"The Satiric Persona in George Knapton's Portraits of the Society of Dilettanti"

12.45-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30 Seth Denbo (Sheffield) and Jonathan White (IHR)
 
3.30-4.00 Tea

4.00-4.45 Round table discussion with Helen Berry, Mark Jenner and Lawrence Klein