F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture 2017 Event
- Time:
- 18:00
- Date:
- 11Ìý°¿³¦³Ù´Ç²ú±ð°ùÌý2017
- Venue:
- Avenue Campus, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ SO17 1BF
For more information regarding this event, please email Tracy Storey at tps@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
This is the fifth annual F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture. These lectures are given every year in honour of the poet and scholar F.T. Prince, who was one of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s first English professors. Invited speakers explore new directions in literary studies, drawing on the English department’s wide range of intellectual interests.
Previous speakers have included , Christopher Ricks , Simon Gikandi , and .
The event will also see the launch of , a new collection of essays exploring Prince's legacy edited by Will May .
Professor Isobel Armstrong - 'Reading Women's Experimental Poetry'
This lecture speculates on new models of writing and reading poetry that deliberately move away from expectations of what a poem is. Sometimes termed a parallel tradition, this poetry is forging new terms. Women are particularly strong in this movement, including Carol Watts, Andrea Brady and Caroline Bergvall.
Isobel Armstrong is a fellow of the British Academy, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Birkbeck. She was a Professor in the English department at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ from 1979-89. Her works include Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993), V ictorian Glass Worlds: Glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 (2008), The Radical Aesthetic (2000), and Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2017).
The lecture will be chaired by Professor Mary Hammond , Chair of English and Book History at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. There will be a drinks reception following the lecture hosted by the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research .
This lecture will be livestreamed and recorded, to watch please follow this .