Centre for Literary Editing and the Materiality of the Text symposium

The Centre for Literary Editing and the Materiality of the Text is holding its symposium on Wednesday 8 March 2017.

Venue: Arts Building, Room 141

Programme

13:30 - 14:00: Tea, coffee and cake

14:00 - 14:50:

• Claire Harrill , ‘The Book of Margaret of Dunfermline: Reading the “Whole Book”’
• Neelam Hussain, ‘Developing a Framework for Studies on the Readership of Arabic Manuscripts’

14:50 - 16:00:

• Maureen Bell, ‘Letters from India in the 1820s as Material Texts: Anxiety, Time and Distance’
• Respondent 1: Louise Curran
• Respondent 2: Oliver Herford

16:00 - 17:00:

• Asha Rogers, ‘J.R. Ackerley’s Passage to India: the British Council’s Blueprint for English Libraries Overseas’
• Valerie Rumbold, ‘Ignoring Swift in Dublin? John Whalley, John Coats and the Sheridan Circle’

All welcome. Please confirm your attendance to v.rumbold@bham.ac.uk.