Comic Verse of the Nineteenth Century: Power, Politics, PoeticsInfo Location Contact More Info Event Information
Description'Comic Verse of the 19th Century: Power, Politics, Poetics' A one-day conference on Wednesday 20th July 2022 at Grove House, University of Roehampton, London. “A servant write verses!” says Madam Du Bloom; “Pray what is the subject? -- a mop, or a broom?” (Elizabeth Hands) Literary critics have increasingly argued for poetics as an especially fecund space for social comedy and criticism. Gillian Beer, for example, demonstrates rhyme as “dialogue, quarrel and undersong…with the helpless excess of possibility that poises it always on the brink of comedy.” As a period in which nonsense, nursery rhyme and light verse flourished, it is clear that the long 19th century took humorous poetry seriously. ‘Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of the poetic genius,’ wrote Carlyle in 1831. That this period was one of eclectic formal experimentation puts its verse and the comic into even more distinctive and exciting relation. We are delighted to present this one-day conference exploring the rousing and radical partnership between comedy and verse throughout the long 19th century. Speakers include Professor Margaret Higonnet, Professor Margaret Stetz, Professor Brian Maidment, and Dr James Williams. Delegate Fee £35.00 Student Rate (proof must be sent of student status) £30.00 For the complete programme, please see further information
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ContactIf you have any issues with the store, please contact Julia Noyce on 020 8392 3698 or email [email protected] More Information8.30-9 Registration (Terrace Room) 9-9.20 Welcome and 'Funny Women C19' Launch – Jasmine Jagger and Heather Hind (Portrait Room) 9.20-10.30 Plenary Panel: Gendering the Comic (Chair: Jasmine Jagger)
Margaret Higonnet (Connecticut) Margaret Stetz (Delaware): Partners in Rhyme: Carolyn Wells, Oliver Herford, and Transatlantic "Whimsy" 10.30-10.45 Coffee (Terrace Room) 10.45-12 Challenging the Order (Chair: Ian Haywood)
Kirstie Blair (Strathclyde): Industrial Comedy and the Working-Class Poet in the Scottish and Northern Press Simon Rennie (Exeter): “Yeds ut’s brastin wi’ther wit”: Comic Verse from the Lancashire Cotton Famine Oskar Cox-Jenson (East Anglia): Travesty, Song and Subversion 12-12.45 Lunch (Terrace Room) 12.45-1.35 Parallel Sessions The Printed Jest (Chair: Louise Lee) – Portrait Room Ian Haywood (Roehampton): Jest in Time: Comic Genres and the Print Culture in the Early Victorian Period Rachel Cross (Cardiff): Comic Depictions of Girls in Victorian Illustrated Songs Imitation and Influence (Chair: James Williams) – Adam Room Matthew Ward (Birmingham): Hood’s Comic Imitations of Lord Byron Anne Anderson (Russel-Cotes Gallery): “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”: The Collected Poems of Oscuro Wildegoose 1.35-2.50 Subverting Expectations (Chair: Kirstie Blair) Clare Stainthorp (Queen Mary, London): Humour as Liberation: Constance Naden’s Comic Poetry Louise Lee (Roehampton): Speaking up for the Mimosa: Whimsy, the Fugitive Poets and the ‘Little Voice’ of Victorian Science Matthew Bevis (Oxford): Elizabeth’s Laughter 2.50-3 Coffee (Terrace Room) 3-3.50 Plenary: The Comic in Time James Williams (York): Tragicomic Verse of the Nineteenth Century: the Problem of Aristophanes and the Case of Beddoes 3.50-4 Short break 4-5 Keynote: Singing the Comic Brian Maidment (Liverpool John Moores): Poetry, Verse, Doggerel, Lyric: Comic Songbooks 1820-1840 5-5.15 Closing Remarks 5.15-6.15 Drinks Reception (Terrace Room) 7.00 Dinner (The Kings Head, Roehampton) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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