Wordsworth Summer Conference 2023

 

 

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

 

Travel 2023:

All trains require a change at Oxenholme for Windermere connection.

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.

1600

Tea [1600 – 1700]

1800

Welcome and Reception 

1900

Dinner

2045

Reception & visit to Dove Cottage by Candlelight

 

 

Tuesday 8 August

 

0715

Early Morning Walk

0915

Lecture 1 – Tom Duggett (XJTLU / Liverpool) Church and State - and History: Cobbett and the Lake Poets in the 1820s debate

1030

Coffee

1115

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

1150

Paper 2:  Paul Whickman (University of Derby) Whining over a dead ass: Byron and Laurence Sterne

1300

(Qualifying ‘A’ walk) – Nab Scar

1300

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

1415

C option: An afternoon in Grasmere.

1730

Paper 3: Inês Rosa (University of Lisbon) A sense of history? The case of The Convention of Cintra

1805

Paper 4: Grace Rexroth (University of Colorado, Boulder) The Battle for Romantic Memory

1900

Dinner

2030

Lecture 2 – Eliza Haughton-Shaw (Cambridge) Clare's Byronic Impersonation

 


 

Wednesday 9 August

 

0715

Early Morning Walk

0915

Lecture 3 – Kelvin Everest (Liverpool) The Surface of Past Time 

1030

Coffee

1115

Paper 5:  Ou Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Keats’s Home-making Poetics of Homelessness

1150

Paper 6:  Momoko Nijibayashi (Kyoto University) Contradiction in Lamia’s identity: the role of music in Keats’s Lamia 

1300

A Walk – Coffin Path to Grasmere, Helm Crag, and Far Easedale (and return)

1300

B and C option: Castlerigg Stone Circle (numbers limited)

1730

Paper 7: Sheng Yao (Durham) The Dramatic Legacy of Pageant and Voice in Wordsworth and Robert Browning

1805

Paper 8: Tara Lee (University of Hong Kong) Steam, Speed, and Sacrifice: Epic Machinery in Robert Southey’s The Curse of Kehama (1810)

1900

Dinner

2030

Paper 9: Debra Bourdeau (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) Witchy Women and Subversive Sisterhood: From Hogarth’s Harlot to Blake’s Whore of Babylon

2105

Paper 10: Kit Freeman (Southern Methodist University) ‘He said, she did’: amanuensis in William Blake’s works

 

 

Thursday 10 August

 

0715

Early Morning Walk

0915

Lecture 4 –  Erica McAlpine (Oxford University) Keats vs Hunt: On the Grasshopper and Cricket

1030

Coffee

1115

Paper 11:  Zara Castagna (University of Birmingham) ‘for thy sake, beloved Friend’: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Friendship Poetry

1150

Paper 12:  Emily  Kasper Stephens (Brigham Young) Dorothy Wordsworth, Religion, and the Rydal Journals

1300

A Walk – Red Screes from Ambleside

1300

Walk from the Door: Alcock Tarn and Greenhead Gill – group reading of ‘Michael’ 

1730

Paper 13: Bruce Graver (Providence College) Mary Wordsworth’s Continental Tour: Writing the Journal                           

1805

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)

1900

Dinner

2030

Paper 15:  Eugene Stelzig (SUNY Geneseo) ‘our home is with infinitude, and only there’: 

The Romantic Rhetoric of Infinite Aspiration in a Finite World

2105

Paper 16:  Brandon Wernette (Tufts University) Before, Beyond, and Lower than the Wordsworthian Sublime

 


 

Friday 11 August 

 

0715

Early Morning Walk

0915

Lecture 5 – Francesca Mackenney (Cardiff University) Unthought of Places: John Clare in the Fens

1030

Coffee

1115

Paper 17: Christopher Simons (International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo) Magical poetics and masculinity in Wordsworth’s The Egyptian Maid 

1150

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

1230

Lunch interval and tour of the Rydal Hall grounds  with Saeko Yoshikawa 

1500

Paper 19:  John Williams (Greenwich University) Alienation and Reconciliation in the Metropolitan Landscapes of Wordsworth and Scott

1535

Paper 20: Peter Moore (Independent Scholar) Wordsworth’s Spots of Time: The Dialectic of Joy and Pain?

1615

Tea interval

1730

Paper 21: Gillian Xu (McGill University) (Re)Crossing the Ecological Space: The Poetry of William Wordsworth and Xu Zhimo (徐志摩)

1805

Paper 22:  Shuyu Guo (University of Connecticut) The Problem of Genre Mixing:

A Comparative Study of William Wordsworth and Feng Zhi’s Sonnets

1900

Dinner

2030

Auction of books and other items to support funding for future bursaries!! ☺

 

 

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.

 

0730

Breakfast and Part 1 checkout

0830

All-day AA Walk – An ascent of Helvellyn from Wythburn, returning via Grisedale Tarn, Tongue Gill, the Travellers Rest, and the Coffin Path 

0900

An all-day Excursion to Lanercost Priory, Hadrian’s Wall, Wetheral,  and the River Eden: 2000 years of history.

 



 

Part Two:  12-17 August

 

Saturday 12 August

 

1730

Welcome for Part 2 participants

1800

Reception and Book Launch at Rydal Mount - Polly Atkin will introduce her new book Some of us just Fall

1915

Dinner

2030

Paper 23: Alex Hobday (King’s College Cambridge) 'No Pictures of Human Life': Wordsworth and the Romantic Image

2105

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.

 

 

Sunday 13 August

 

0715

Early Morning Walk

0915

Lecture 6 –  Amanda Blake Davis (University of Derby) Shelley's 'interfluous wood'

1030

Coffee

1115

Paper 25: Saeko Yoshikawa (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan) Wordsworth’s Eye-Music

1150

Paper 26:  Megan Zeitz (University of Geneva) Picturesque Tourism in the Lake District from William Wordsworth to Taylor Swift: Aesthetic Attention and Literary Legacy

1230

Lunch

1430

How to build a drystone wall – a practical workshop with Stewart Reekie

1600

Tea interval

1700

Lecture  7 – Freya Johnston (Oxford University) Jane Austen's Wordsworth

1900

Dinner

2030

Paper 27:  Jacob Lloyd (Stanford University in Oxford) ‘His bones were black with many a crack’: The Marinere’s Gothic Tale

2105

Paper 28: Ayako Wada (Tottori University, Japan) Hawkesworth’s Voyages (1773) and its Literary Impact

 


 

Monday 14 August

 

0715

Early Morning Walk

0915

Lecture 8 - Michael Gamer (Pennsylvania / QMU) Coleridge and the Melodrama

1030

Coffee

1115

Paper 29: Shellie Audsley (Cambridge) Transcribing the Records of the Future:

 Disjointed Time and the Self in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man 

1150

Paper 30: Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) The Triumph of the Female Demonic in Mary Shelley’s Valperga (1823)

1300

Qualifying ‘A’ walk – Todd Crag

1315

Walk from the door: to Ambleside, High Sweden Bridge, Low Sweden Bridge  and return

1730

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

1805

Paper 32: Ileana González Zavala (University of Western Ontario) Nature’s gleams of past existence: spectral misrecognition and subject fragmentation in Wordsworth’s poetry

1900

Dinner

2030

Paper 33: James Aglio  (Boston University) Wordsworth, Gray, diction, and decency

    2105

Paper 34: Daniel Brocklehurst (University of Sydney) Wordsworth’s Peter Bell Syndrome

 

 

Tuesday 15 August

 

0715

Early Morning Walk

0915

Lecture 9 –  Seamus Perry (Oxford) Wordsworthian Bishop

1030

Coffee

1115

Paper 35:   Emily Holland (University of Sheffield) ‘I stood beside thy lowly grave’:

 The Spiritual Communities of Wordsworth and Hemans

1150

Paper 36:   Molly Watson (University of Nottingham) Sara Coleridge and the (un)born child addressee

1310

A Walk –  Low Pike and High Pike 

1315

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  

1730

Paper 37: Patty O’Boyle (Durham University) Wordsworth, Bottom, and Coleridge’s attempt at ‘explanation’ in Biographia Literaria

1805

Paper 38:  Julia Dixon (Brigham Young University) Dorothy’s Decisions: An Examination of Dorothy Wordsworth and DCMS 120

1900

Dinner

2030

Lecture 10 – Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado, Boulder) Robert Wood’s The Ruins of Palmyra: A Performance in Measurement

 

 

Wednesday 16 August

 

0715

Early Morning Walk                       

0915

Paper 39:  Ben Norbury (The Queen’s College, Oxford) ‘Towards what abyss’—Wordsworth’s ambivalent flow

0950

Paper 40:  Yimon Lo (University of Leuven) Urban Rhythm and Dynamics in Wordsworth's Poetry

1030

Coffee

1115

Lecture 11 –  Paul Westover (Brigham Young) Dorothy Wordsworth’s Lake District: A Digital Edition

1300

AA Walk - Fairfield Horseshoe

1300

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

1400

Rydal Hall Garden: Watercolour Workshop with Kate Marriott

1900

Dinner

 

Final evening party including Romantic Charades

 

 

Thursday 17 August

 

0815

Breakfast and Departures

0930

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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