Event Archive
This is an archive of past events within the Department of English Studies. Please see our current events for forthcoming activities.
Some of our public events are recorded and are available as podcasts via our Research English At Durham blog.
Modelling the Self: ''Into her Dream He Melted': Women Artists Remodelling Keats,' by Dr. Sarah Wotton (Durham University)
This lecture forms part of the Institute of Advanced Study's "Modelling the Self" series.
Dr. Wotton will explore the various ways in which Keats and his poetry have been remodelled by feminist critics.
The origins of what is now referred to as Keats’s 'ideological cross-dressing' will be traced back to early accusations of 'effeminacy' and the late nineteenth-century adulation of his poetry as a treasury of beautiful artefacts. In addition to his appeal to women readers during this period, I will also examine nineteenth-century women artists, such as Jessie Marion King, Anna Lea Merritt, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Henrietta Rae, Averil Burleigh and Anne Whitney, who, alongside more celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painters, produced influential and innovative images of the poet and his work.
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Next Event
- 20th January 2021
- Sensory Experiments in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Online (Zoom)
- Dr Erica Fretwell (University of Albany) and Dr Shannon Draucker (Siena College)