LAMB AND PRINT CULTURE

CHARLES LAMB SOCIETY DAY CONFERENCE

Swedenborg Hall, 20 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Saturday 27th November 2010.

10.30-11          Coffee

11-12.30    First Panel: Lamb Abroad       

‘Writing Empire: Lamb and the East India Company’
Dr. David Higgins, University of Leeds

‘Imagination and the Traveller: the Psychogeography of Charles Lamb’s essays for the London Magazine’

Dr. Susan Oliver, University of Essex

12.30-2.30       Lunch at local restaurant (participants to make their own arrangements)

2.30-3.30  Graduate Panel

‘“Too much of the boy-man”: Charles Lamb and the Uses of Childishness’

Peter J. Newbon, University of Cambridge

‘“I forlorn do wander”: Introspective melancholy in Lamb's contributions to Sonnets from Various Authors (S.T. Coleridge, ed, 1796)’

Katy Beavers, University of Greenwich

3.30-4              Tea

4-5.30        Third Panel: Politics and Poetry

‘Lamb's poems for The Champion’
Dr. John Gardner, Anglia Ruskin University

‘From autograph to print: Lamb's Album Verses, with a few others’

Dr. Samantha Matthews, University of Bristol

ATTENDANCE IS FREE OF CHARGE, BUT REGISTRATION IN ADVANCE WOULD BE APPRECIATED: FOR THIS AND ANY OTHER QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT FELICITY JAMES (fj21@le.ac.uk), SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER.