Manchester Early Modern Texts Workshop: Intellectual Royalism

12 April 2008, Chetham’s Library, Manchester


10-11

Jerome de Groot (Manchester)

Introductory remarks/ ‘Royalist Translation’

Philip Major (Birkbeck)

‘Royalism and Translation’


11.15-12.15

Sean Herrera-Thomas (Redwoods, CA)

‘By thee fish die; by thee dead friends revive’: Intellectual Marriage in Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler

Jo Smith (Sheffield)

‘The Hermeneutics of Cosmetics: Censorship and the Body Politic in A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty (1656)’


1.15-2

Matthew Yeo (Manchester/ Chetham’s), workshop on Royalism at Chetham’s


2-3.30

Iain McClure (Birkbeck)

‘John Greaves, Pyramidographia and the royalism of Ancient Egypt’

Jason McElligott (Oxford)

‘“A Declaration and Protestation of the Governor and Inhabitants of Virginia”: Polemic, Censorship and Trans-Atlantic Royalism’

Marcus Nevitt (Sheffield)

‘Rationalist Poetics and Anti-Intellectualism: Royalist Responses to Sir William Davenant's Gondibert’


Details: Dr Jerome de Groot, Jerome.degroot@manchester.ac.uk