Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
Website of the AHRC-funded 'Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900' research network
Speaking to the ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop from the Huntington Library, where he is currently in residence as R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow in the Humanities, Jon Mee offered some initial thoughts about his ambitions for the network. Below are the notes from which he was working in this presentation, which Read More
The ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop opened with a talk by Willy Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. Willy’s presentation began by examining the word ‘lucriferous’, a coinage of Samuel Hartlib’s circle that maps closely onto the priorities for institutional development during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Read More
Many thanks to all the speakers and attendees who came to our ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop, which took place last Friday and Saturday (31st March and 1st of April). It was a really productive couple of days, with a series of excellent talks from all involved that sparked a wide-ranging Read More