Programme
7-17 August 2023
Notices Keynote Lectures
Special Events Leisure Events Tea/Meals Foundation Events
(Names in bold red are bursary holders)
Leisure events, timings and destinations are subject to
change
Part One: 7-12
August
Monday 7 August
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Travel 2023:
All trains require a change at Oxenholme for Windermere
connection.
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Euston to Oxenholme 11.30–14.09
[direct]
Manchester Airport to Oxenholme 12.04 –13.30, 13.04 –14.34
[direct]
Glasgow Central to Oxenholme 12.44 – 14.06
[direct]
Oxenholme to Windermere 14.39–14.55; 15.37–15.56; 16.32–16.52
[all direct]
Bus 555 to Rydal Church bus stop leaves Windermere Station at 9
and 39 minutes past the hour (bus stop adjacent to station and Booths supermarket); bus 599 to Rydal Church bus stop leaves Windermere station every twenty minutes. Taxis are also available at the
station. Web links for train and bus times and tickets are on page 8 of this programme.
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1600
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Tea [1600 – 1700]
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1800
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Welcome and
Reception
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1900
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Dinner
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2045
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Reception & visit to Dove Cottage by
Candlelight
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Tuesday 8 August
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0715
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Early Morning Walk
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0915
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Lecture 1 – Tom Duggett (XJTLU / Liverpool) Church and State -
and History: Cobbett and the Lake Poets in the 1820s debate
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1030
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Coffee
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1115
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Paper 1: Jake Phipps (Durham University/Newcastle
University) ‘So, We’ll Go No More A Roving’: The Language of Love and Friendship in Byron’s Letters
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1150
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Paper 2: Paul Whickman (University of Derby) Whining over a
dead ass: Byron and Laurence Sterne
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1300
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(Qualifying ‘A’ walk) –
Nab Scar
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1300
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Walk from the door: The Rydal Cave and Loughrigg Terrace to
Grasmere to see Wordsworth family graves. Return by the Coffin Path or 555 / 599 bus
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1415
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C option: An afternoon in
Grasmere.
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1730
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Paper 3: Inês Rosa (University of Lisbon)
A sense of history? The case
of The Convention of Cintra
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1805
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Paper 4: Grace Rexroth (University of Colorado, Boulder) The
Battle for Romantic Memory
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1900
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Dinner
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2030
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Lecture 2 – Eliza Haughton-Shaw (Cambridge) Clare's Byronic
Impersonation
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Wednesday 9 August
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0715
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Early Morning Walk
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0915
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Lecture 3 – Kelvin Everest (Liverpool) The Surface of Past
Time
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1030
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Coffee
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1115
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Paper 5: Ou Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Keats’s Home-making Poetics of Homelessness
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1150
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Paper 6: Momoko Nijibayashi
(Kyoto University) Contradiction in Lamia’s identity: the role of
music in Keats’s Lamia
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1300
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A Walk – Coffin Path to Grasmere, Helm Crag, and Far Easedale
(and return)
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1300
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B and C option: Castlerigg Stone Circle (numbers
limited)
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1730
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Paper 7: Sheng Yao (Durham) The Dramatic Legacy of Pageant and Voice in
Wordsworth and Robert Browning
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1805
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Paper 8: Tara Lee (University of Hong Kong) Steam, Speed, and Sacrifice: Epic
Machinery in Robert Southey’s The Curse of Kehama
(1810)
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1900
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Dinner
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2030
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Paper 9: Debra Bourdeau (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
Witchy Women and Subversive Sisterhood: From Hogarth’s Harlot to Blake’s Whore of Babylon
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2105
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Paper 10: Kit Freeman (Southern Methodist University) ‘He said,
she did’: amanuensis in William Blake’s
works
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Thursday 10 August
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0715
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Early Morning Walk
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0915
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Lecture 4 – Erica McAlpine (Oxford University) Keats vs
Hunt: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
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1030
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Coffee
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1115
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Paper 11: Zara Castagna (University of Birmingham) ‘for thy sake, beloved Friend’:
Dorothy Wordsworth’s Friendship Poetry
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1150
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Paper 12: Emily Kasper Stephens (Brigham
Young) Dorothy Wordsworth, Religion, and the Rydal Journals
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1300
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A Walk – Red Screes from
Ambleside
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1300
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Walk from the Door: Alcock Tarn and Greenhead Gill – group
reading of ‘Michael’
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1730
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Paper 13: Bruce Graver (Providence
College) Mary Wordsworth’s Continental Tour: Writing the
Journal
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1805
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Paper 14: Keerthi Vasishta (Durham) The Chartreuse Complications: Reassessing the role of
Chartreuse in Wordsworth’s “Descriptive Sketches on a Pedestrian Tour of the Alps” (1793)
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1900
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Dinner
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2030
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Paper 15: Eugene Stelzig (SUNY Geneseo) ‘our home is with
infinitude, and only there’:
The Romantic Rhetoric of Infinite Aspiration in a Finite
World
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2105
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Paper 16: Brandon Wernette (Tufts University) Before,
Beyond, and Lower than the Wordsworthian Sublime
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Friday 11 August
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0715
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Early Morning Walk
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0915
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Lecture 5 – Francesca Mackenney (Cardiff University) Unthought of
Places: John Clare in the Fens
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1030
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Coffee
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1115
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Paper 17: Christopher Simons (International Christian University
(ICU), Tokyo) Magical poetics and masculinity in Wordsworth’s The Egyptian Maid
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1150
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Paper 18: Catherine Ross (The University of Texas at Tyler) From
Grammar School to University: Lessons in Reading, Writing, and Living in the Anglo-Classical Academy
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1230
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Lunch interval and tour of the Rydal Hall grounds with
Saeko Yoshikawa
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1500
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Paper 19: John Williams (Greenwich
University) Alienation and Reconciliation in the Metropolitan Landscapes of
Wordsworth and Scott
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1535
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Paper 20: Peter Moore (Independent Scholar) Wordsworth’s Spots of
Time: The Dialectic of Joy and
Pain?
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1615
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Tea interval
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1730
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Paper 21: Gillian Xu (McGill University)
(Re)Crossing the Ecological Space: The Poetry of William Wordsworth
and Xu Zhimo (徐志摩)
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1805
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Paper 22: Shuyu Guo (University of Connecticut) The Problem of Genre
Mixing:
A Comparative Study of William Wordsworth and Feng Zhi’s
Sonnets
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1900
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Dinner
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2030
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Auction of books and other items to support funding for future
bursaries!! ☺
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Saturday 12 August
Arrivals and Departures
Today’s events before 1630 are for those attending both parts of
the conference. It is not possible to provide transfers from or to Oxenholme or Windermere on this day: local buses 555 or 599 or shared taxis are advised. Web links for 2023 train and bus times and
tickets are on page 8 of this programme.
If there are spare seats, participants registered for only Part 1
or Part 2 may join one of the all-day events on payment of £15.00, but it is unlikely to be possible to spend an extra night at Rydal Hall to facilitate this.
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0730
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Breakfast and Part 1
checkout
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0830
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All-day AA Walk – An ascent of Helvellyn from Wythburn, returning
via Grisedale Tarn, Tongue Gill, the Travellers Rest, and the Coffin Path
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0900
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An all-day Excursion to
Lanercost Priory, Hadrian’s Wall, Wetheral, and the River
Eden: 2000 years of history.
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Part Two: 12-17
August
Saturday 12 August
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1730
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Welcome for Part 2
participants
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1800
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Reception and Book Launch at Rydal Mount
- Polly Atkin will introduce her new
book Some of us just Fall
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1915
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Dinner
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2030
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Paper 23: Alex Hobday (King’s College Cambridge) 'No Pictures of
Human Life': Wordsworth and the Romantic Image
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2105
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Paper 24: Alan Bean (Birmingham) Aquapendente and the Colosseum:
positive aspects of Roman Catholicism in the poetry of William Wordsworth and the paintings of William Collins.
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Sunday 13 August
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0715
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Early Morning Walk
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0915
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Lecture 6 – Amanda Blake Davis (University of
Derby) Shelley's 'interfluous
wood'
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1030
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Coffee
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1115
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Paper 25: Saeko Yoshikawa (Kobe City University of Foreign
Studies, Japan) Wordsworth’s Eye-Music
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1150
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Paper 26: Megan Zeitz (University of Geneva) Picturesque Tourism in the Lake District
from William Wordsworth to Taylor Swift: Aesthetic Attention and Literary Legacy
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1230
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Lunch
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1430
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How to build a drystone wall – a practical workshop with Stewart
Reekie
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1600
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Tea interval
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1700
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Lecture 7 – Freya Johnston (Oxford University) Jane
Austen's Wordsworth
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1900
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Dinner
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2030
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Paper 27: Jacob Lloyd (Stanford University in
Oxford) ‘His bones were black with many a crack’: The Marinere’s Gothic
Tale
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2105
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Paper 28: Ayako Wada (Tottori University, Japan)
Hawkesworth’s Voyages (1773) and its Literary
Impact
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Monday 14 August
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0715
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Early Morning Walk
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0915
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Lecture 8 - Michael Gamer (Pennsylvania / QMU) Coleridge and the
Melodrama
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1030
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Coffee
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1115
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Paper 29: Shellie Audsley (Cambridge) Transcribing the Records of the
Future:
Disjointed Time and the Self in Mary
Shelley’s The Last Man
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1150
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Paper 30: Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore
County) The Triumph of the Female Demonic in Mary Shelley’s Valperga (1823)
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1300
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Qualifying ‘A’ walk – Todd
Crag
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1315
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Walk from the door: to Ambleside, High Sweden Bridge, Low Sweden
Bridge and return
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1730
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Paper 31: Francesco Marchionni (Durham University) ‘The ghost of
a forgotten form of sleep’: Forgetfulness in Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ and P.B. Shelley’s The Triumph of Life
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1805
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Paper 32: Ileana González Zavala (University of Western Ontario)
Nature’s gleams of past existence: spectral misrecognition and subject fragmentation in Wordsworth’s poetry
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1900
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Dinner
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2030
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Paper 33: James Aglio (Boston University) Wordsworth, Gray,
diction, and decency
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2105
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Paper 34: Daniel Brocklehurst (University of Sydney) Wordsworth’s
Peter Bell Syndrome
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Tuesday 15 August
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0715
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Early Morning Walk
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0915
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Lecture 9 – Seamus Perry (Oxford) Wordsworthian
Bishop
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1030
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Coffee
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1115
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Paper 35: Emily Holland (University of Sheffield) ‘I stood beside thy
lowly grave’:
The Spiritual Communities of Wordsworth and
Hemans
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1150
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Paper 36:
Molly Watson (University of Nottingham) Sara Coleridge and the
(un)born child addressee
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1310
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A Walk – Low Pike and High
Pike
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1315
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Walk from the door: Coffin path walk to Town End, to
hear Jeff Cowton at the Jerwood Centre on Wordsworth Trust Treasures (from
1415). Return walk around Grasmere including a visit to the Heaton Cooper Gallery shop and Allan Bank (Wordsworth’s home 1808-11). OR 555 / 599 bus
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1730
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Paper 37: Patty O’Boyle (Durham University) Wordsworth, Bottom,
and Coleridge’s attempt at ‘explanation’ in Biographia Literaria
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1805
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Paper 38: Julia Dixon (Brigham Young University) Dorothy’s
Decisions: An Examination of Dorothy Wordsworth and DCMS 120
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1900
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Dinner
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2030
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Lecture 10 – Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado,
Boulder) Robert Wood’s The Ruins of
Palmyra: A Performance in
Measurement
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Wednesday 16 August
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0715
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Early Morning
Walk
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0915
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Paper 39: Ben Norbury (The Queen’s College, Oxford) ‘Towards what abyss’—Wordsworth’s
ambivalent flow
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0950
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Paper 40: Yimon Lo (University of
Leuven) Urban Rhythm and Dynamics in Wordsworth's
Poetry
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1030
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Coffee
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1115
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Lecture 11 – Paul Westover (Brigham
Young) Dorothy Wordsworth’s Lake
District: A Digital Edition
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1300
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AA Walk - Fairfield
Horseshoe
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1300
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Walk from the door: Circular walk including Literary Loughrigg,
Ambleside Roman Fort, and Stock Ghyll. Optional refreshments at ‘The Golden Rule’. Return via track across Rydal Park or 555 / 599 bus
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1400
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Rydal Hall Garden: Watercolour Workshop with Kate
Marriott
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1900
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Dinner
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Final evening party including Romantic
Charades
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Thursday 17 August
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0815
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Breakfast and Departures
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0930
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Transport to Windermere Railway Station for trains as
follows:
Windermere to Oxenholme 10.57–11. 16
[direct]
Oxenholme to Euston 11.26 –14.12
[direct]
to Manchester Airport 11.26–13.15 [one
change]
to Glasgow Central 11.28–14.02
[direct]
Our minibus transfer to Windermere Station must be pre-booked
with Kate by 15 August.
Spaces are limited to 16 and only those who have booked will
travel.
Web links for train and bus times and tickets are on page 8 of
this programme.
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