The programme for the Constructions of Love and the Emotions of Intimacy, 1750-1850 conference is now online. I’ll be presenting my work on Anna Seward, affective portraiture and gift exchange (abstract available here).
Constructions of Love and the Emotions of Intimacy, 1750-1850
Saturday 9th February 2019
Provisional Programme
09.30 – 10.00 Welcome and Registration with Tea and Coffee (Graduate Space, 4th Floor, Humanities)
10.00 – 10.10 Introduction (H545, 5th Floor, Humanities)
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10.10 – 11.10 1st Keynote – Dr Sally Holloway, Oxford Brookes,
The Progress of Love: Courtship, Emotions & Material Culture in Georgian England
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11.10 – 12.40 Session 1 – Marriage
Angela Platt, Royal Holloway, ‘Earthly’ love vs. ‘Godly’ love – gendered notions of love and duty within dissenting marriages
Samantha-Jo Armstrong, University of Birmingham, “The Kindness of Love: Kindness in Women’s Marriage in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Dr Pärttyli Rinne, University of Helsinki, Kant on Love and Intimacy in Marriage and Friendship
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12.40 – 13.20 Lunch
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13.20 – 15.20 Session 2 – Methodology, Material Culture, and Practices
Professor Julie Hardwick, University of Texas, “Faire l’amour: Emotions, Intimacy and Working People’s Practices of Love in an Old Regime City”
Megan Batterbee, University of Kent, ‘If once subdued […] always subdued?’: Issues of Consent in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
Dr Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh, ‘Pledges of an highly-prized friendship’: Anna Seward, Portraiture, and the Poetics of Exchange
Maggan Kalenak, University of Cambridge, “Kiss This Letter Before You Put It By”: Domestic Performance, Material Culture and Fantasy Fodder in Nineteenth Century Love Letters
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15.20 – 15.30 Tea and Coffee
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15.30 – 16.30 2nd Keynote – Dr Daisy Hay, University of Exeter,
Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli: Constructing a Love Story
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16.30 – 18.00 Session 3 – Politeness, Adultery, and Falling out of Love
Simona Di Martino, University of Warwick, The polite intimacy in Italian cultural salons: the love correspondence between Ugo Foscolo and Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi as a case study
Professor David Stack, University of Reading, The higher pleasures of platonic adultery: the case of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor
Dr Kerstin Pahl, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin), When Affection Grows Cold: Falling Out of Love in Nineteenth-Century England
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18.00 – 19.00 Wine reception
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