Category: Institutions as Curators

Emma Peacocke’s paper for the ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop explored the topic from two different but complementary angles.  The first half of her talk considered the institutional interactions of the poet, lecturer and editor Thomas Campbell, who was instrumental in the founding of the University of London and an unusually Read More

Willy Maley has kindly provided an extensive and illuminating bibliography of relevant primary and secondary sources for those researching institutional activities in the seventeenth century (and people considering their legacies).  This can be downloaded using the link below. Willy Maley – Third University to the Royal Society Bibliography

(Many thanks to Carolyn Oulton (Canterbury Christ Church University) for sending through an overview of her paper from the ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop, along with tables showing some of the data that’s she’s working with in exploring the records of the Folkestone Free Library.) From ‘Boy’ to ‘Britain’: Popular Fiction Read More

(Many thanks to Richard De Ritter (University of Leeds) for sending through an overview of his paper from the ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop, along with his PowerPoint.  We’re currently building up an archive of the workshop’s discussions and will be posting a series of further updates over the coming weeks.) Read More

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

(Some initial thoughts in advance of the ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop.) One of the main contentions that informs the ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ network is that current criticism doesn’t give enough credit to institutions when it tries to chart the disciplinary development of literature.  Most accounts of literary value have Read More

(Our second contribution looking forward to the ‘Institutions as Curators’ workshop is by  Suchitra Choudhury, who is currently a postdoctoral researcher and a participant in the University of Glasgow’s ‘Second Cities of Empire’ project.  Below, she discusses the interplay between the meanings of objects produced through circulations and collections and Read More