BMS 59
Saturday 16 March 2019
Venue: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston campus (Rodney Hilton Library: Room 335, Arts Building) – please below for directions.
There will be two sessions, from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.
11.00-12.30
Jean David Eynard (Cambridge), ‘Milton as reader of Bodin’s Colloquium: Tolerant aesthetics and the politics of writing’;
Chine Sonoi (Oita, Japan), ‘A quest for liberty in Robert Southey’s Joan of Arc (1796) in relation to John Milton’s political writings’.
2.00-4.00
Laura Fox Gill (Sussex), ‘“Strange alteration!”: The Victorian Milton and a Case of Anthropodermic Bibliopegy’;
Hugh Adlington and George Davies (Birmingham), ‘Milton for the People? Radical, Liberal, and Nonconformist Readers, 1800-1900’.
Directions
The Rodney Hilton Library (Room 335) is on the third floor of the Arts Building on the Edgbaston campus of the University of Birmingham.
For directions to the Edgbaston campus, please see: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/contact/directions/getting-here-edgbaston.aspx
For a map of the Edgbaston campus (the Arts Building is marked as R16), please see: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/university/edgbaston-campus-map.pdf
For further information about the British Milton Seminar, please contact either:
Dr Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk) or Professor Sarah Knight (sk218@leicester.ac.uk).
Hugh Adlington and Sarah M. Knight (Co-convenors)