Month: May 2009

  • AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: Humphry Davy

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    Poetry and Science: The Case of Humphry Davy Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD award to study the manuscript and published poetry of the chemist Humphry Davy, 1778–1829. This collaborative award, to be supervised jointly by experts at the University of Salford and the Royal Institution of Great Britain (www.rigb.org), will involve the student…

  • Oxford Literature and Science Seminar

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    The Oxford Literature and Science seminar is meeting twice termly; all with a research interest in the area are welcome, whether members of the university or not. The second event in Trinity Term 2009 will be held in the Breakfast Room, Merton College, Oxford. Friday 12 June 2009 (7th week), 2pm. Jean-François Peyret (founder and…

  • Cfp: Looking back on the End of Time

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    Looking back on the End of Time — Modernism and Beyond University of East Anglia, UK Keynote Speakers: Prof. Randall Stevenson (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow) At the turn of the twentieth century developments in the sciences and technology seemed to necessitate a radical review of the nature, perhaps even…

  • Cfp: Dickens and Science

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    DICKENS DAY – Dickens and Science Saturday 10 October 2009, London G. H. Lewes famously criticised Dickens’s failure to engage with contemporary scientific thought and proffer psychologically convincing characters, describing them as ‘frogs whose brains have been taken out for physiological purposes’. Recent work, however, has significantly challenged the truism that Dickens was indifferent or…

  • Allard, James Robert, Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet’s Body

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    James Robert Allard, Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet’s Body, The Nineteenth Century Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). 174 pp. £50 hb. ISBN 0-7546-5891-7. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) James Allard’s title promises much: a consideration of the poet’s body in Romanticism no less. When one looks inside the book one finds that…

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