Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
Website of the AHRC-funded 'Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900' research network
(Many thanks to Anne Stevens for providing an edited text of the brilliant talk that she gave at the ‘Institutions as Actors’ workshop, along with a copy of her PowerPoint.) Circulating and Subscription Libraries: Institutions as Creators of Genres Anne H. Stevens, University of Nevada, Las Vegas In his opening Read More
The ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ network’s final event, ‘Institutions as Actors’, took place last Friday and Saturday in York. We’d like to express our gratitude to our speakers, who gave uniformly excellent papers, and to all those who attended, who facilitated genuinely productive discussions in a friendly environment. Over the Read More
In advance of the ‘Institutions as Actors’ workshop, we’ve circulated some general questions that we’re hoping the workshop will address – we’ve reproduced the email setting these out below for those who are unable to join us in York. Dear All, We’re looking forward to welcoming you all to York Read More
(In advance of ‘Institutions as Actors’, some thoughts toward a revised definition of ‘institution’, based on the network’s discussions – M.S.) When we wrote the proposal for the ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ network in 2015, and when we advertised via our open call for participants in the autumn of 2016, Read More
We’ve now finalised the programme for the ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ network’s last workshop, ‘Institutions as Actors’, which can be viewed here. The workshop is open to a limited number of non-speaking delegates; if you’d be interested in coming along, we’d love to hear from you on institutionsofliterature@gmail.com. We’ll be Read More
Sarah Comyn, who gave an excellent paper on mechanics’ institutes in the colony of Victoria as part of a panel of presenters from the SouthHem project at ‘Institutions as Networks’, has written an illuminating breakdown of the workshop’s discussions, which can be seen on the SouthHem project site.
(Many thanks to Susan Bennett (William Shipley Group for Royal Society of Arts History) for allowing us to publish the wide-ranging talk that she gave on the RSA’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century connections at the ‘Institutions as Networks’ workshop.) ‘Little more…than of a Society in the moon’: Publicising the work of Read More
(Many thanks to Julian Pooley (University of Leicester) for this fascinating account of the paper that he gave in the opening session of the ‘Institutions as Networks’ workshop: ‘”Dry, thorny and barbarous paths?”: The Nicholses, their Press and the Society of Antiquaries, 1777-1873’.) I’m preparing an analytical guide to the Read More
(Many thanks to Crystal Lake (Wright State University) for sending us a post that reflects on ‘Institutions as Networks’ workshop as a whole while also setting out the thesis of the fascinating talk that she gave with Kristen Schuster (King’s College London).) At one point deep into the second day Read More
(Many thanks to John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin University) for providing a summary of the fascinating talk on the emergence of mechanics’ institutes that he gave at the ‘Institutions as Networks’ workshop, along with a copy of his PowerPoint.) The talk focussed on how innovation and demands for education came from Read More