{"id":1045,"date":"2019-04-17T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2019-04-17T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T09:37:23","slug":"london-paris-romanticism-seminar-frances-ferguson-friday-26-april-2019-senate-house-university-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"London-Paris Romanticism Seminar: Frances Ferguson, Friday 26 April 2019, Senate House, University of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1046\" src=\"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ferguson-ad.png\" alt=\"ferguson ad\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ferguson-ad.png 1024w, http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ferguson-ad-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ferguson-ad-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next meeting of the\u00a0London-Paris Romanticism Seminar will take place on Friday 26 April in the Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor) at Senate House, University of London, starting at 5.30. As our distinguished guest speaker, we are delighted to welcome Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/english.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/frances-ferguson\"><strong>Frances Ferguson<\/strong><\/a> of the University of Chicago, who will\u00a0present a paper entitled <em>Anna Letitia Barbauld, the Book, and the World<\/em>. This will be followed by a discussion and wine reception. The event is free and open to everyone, including postgraduates and members of the public. No booking is required.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/frances-ferguson\">Frances Ferguson<\/a><\/strong> taught at the University of California-Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University before joining the English Department at the University of Chicago as Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor. Her publications include <em>Wordsworth: Language as Counter-spirit<\/em> (1977); <em>Solitude and the Sublime: The Aesthetics of Individuation <\/em>(1992); and <em>Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action <\/em>(2005); and articles on various topics in eighteenth century and Romantic studies. The journal <em>Critical Inquiry <\/em>has most recently\u2014in late March of 2019\u2014published her essay \u201cNot Kant, but Bentham: On Taste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the topic of her talk, Frances writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnna Letitia Barbauld\u2019s writings for children\u2014the <em>Lessons for Children<\/em> that she directed to children between the ages of two and four and the <em>Hymns in Prose for Children<\/em> that followed them\u2014have long been recognized as distinctive. They did not focus on teaching the building blocks of words: letters and syllables. Neither did they address children with moral statements, connected stories, or rhymes and ditties. As Barbauld put it, \u2018A grave remark, or a connected story, however simple, is above [a young child\u2019s] capacity; and nonsense is always below it.\u2019 Barbauld published her books for children without illustrations, and they rely on ongoing conversational naming in which her speakers point to things\u2014animals, objects, other people\u2014in the world. My paper aims to characterize Barbauld\u2019s reasons for writing as she did, and her understanding of the nature of publication.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The next meeting of the\u00a0London-Paris Romanticism Seminar will take place on Friday 26 April in the Bloomsbury Room (G35, ground floor) at Senate House, University of London, starting at 5.30. 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