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The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

LOCATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN HARDY’S TESS This lecture anticipates Professor Bullen’s forthcoming book, The World of Thomas Hardy’s Novels, in which he explores the way in which Hardy, using the art, architecture and music of the nineteenth century, transforms Dorset locations into the visionary places of Wessex.Focussing on Tess of the d’Urbervilles Professor Bullen shows how the story is suffused with myth and legend and how the mythographic substructure transforms everyday locations into…See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

Session 1 James Mussell (Birmingham): ‘“Scarers in Print”: Literacy and Media Practice from Our Mutual Friend to Friend Me on Facebook’ Bob Nicholson (Manchester): ‘“Goodbye, old fellow, I must skedaddle!”: Reading the American Voice in the Late-Victorian Press’Session 2 Claire Potter (U Paris Diderot): ‘The Weight of the Voice/The Slant of the Word: Circulations of Melancholia in Hardy’ Roisin Quinn-Lautrefin (U Paris Diderot): ‘Giving Utterance: Mary Barton and the Language of the Working…See More

Session 1 James Mussell (Birmingham): ‘“Scarers in Print”: Literacy and Media Practice from Our Mutual Friend to Friend Me on Facebook’ Bob Nicholson (Manchester): ‘“Goodbye, old fellow, I must skedaddle!”: Reading the American Voice in the Late-Victorian Press’Session 2 Claire Potter (U Paris Diderot): ‘The Weight of the Voice/The Slant of the Word: Circulations of Melancholia in Hardy’ Roisin Quinn-Lautrefin (U Paris Diderot): ‘Giving Utterance: Mary Barton and the Language of the Working…See More

This is a group for anyone studying an element, a piece, a bit, a portion, something not quite intact, or part of a larger whole. Anyone with an interest in disengaged or broken-up fragments of bodies, things, concepts, or historical ideas is welcome.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

This relaxed postgraduate group discusses a range of texts from the nineteenth century. We meet over a drink on the third monday of the month. Contact susancivale@yahoo.com for further information.See More

“As I write, shot after shot falls on the fugitives, who are wailing loudly over those they know are already slain – Oh let thy kingdom come.”140 years ago, in Darkest Africa, David Livingstone gave H. M. Stanley a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which slave traders slaughtered 400 innocent people in a village market. Stanley’s report of the massacre in the world press would change the course of history.When he wrote this diary, Livingstone was stranded without supplies in…See More

“As I write, shot after shot falls on the fugitives, who are wailing loudly over those they know are already slain – Oh let thy kingdom come.”140 years ago, in Darkest Africa, David Livingstone gave H. M. Stanley a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which slave traders slaughtered 400 innocent people in a village market. Stanley’s report of the massacre in the world press would change the course of history.When he wrote this diary, Livingstone was stranded without supplies in…See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More