{"id":4392,"date":"2024-11-01T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T09:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2024-11-01T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T10:40:17","slug":"london-paris-romanticism-seminar-will-bowers-friday-15-november-2024-senate-house-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/?p=4392","title":{"rendered":"London-Paris Romanticism Seminar: Will Bowers, Friday 15 November 2024, Senate House, London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The next meeting of the\u00a0London-Paris Romanticism Seminar\u00a0will take place on Friday 15 November 2024 in Room 243 (second floor), Senate House, University of London, starting at 5.30 pm.\u00a0As our distinguished guest speaker, we are delighted to welcome\u00a0Dr Will Bowers<\/a><\/strong> of Queen Mary University of London, who will present a paper entitled\u00a0Shelley’s Plastic Greek.<\/em><\/em>\u00a0This will be followed by a discussion and wine reception. The seminar will be chaired by\u00a0Isobel Hurst <\/a><\/strong>(Goldsmiths, University of London).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is free and open to everyone, including postgraduates and members of the public. No booking is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Bowers<\/strong><\/a> is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at Queen Mary University of London. He has published essays on poets including Byron, Milton, Shelley, and Wordsworth, and his first book, The Italian Idea<\/em>, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2020. He is an editor on the final two volumes of the Longman Shelley, which were released this summer, and has a further two ongoing editorial projects: an edition of Cowper\u2019s Poem, Hymns, and Letters <\/em>for World\u2019s Classics (which he hopes to complete this winter), and a co-edited letters of Shelley for Oxford University Press (which won\u2019t be complete for quite a few winters). He is also near the completion of co-authored critical study of Shelley\u2019s Greek with Tom Phillips (Manchester).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding the topic of his paper, Will writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShelley\u2019s interest in Ancient Greece began in earnest on the banks of the Thames at Marlow in 1817, and it endured until his final days on the Bay of Spezia in 1822. The talk opens with an outline of Shelley\u2019s approach to Greek literature and its reception, before considering how this might profitably be thought of as plastic and iconoclastic. It then runs through a teleology of Shelley\u2019s study of Greek, before resting on two texts in which we can, in the words of Swinburne, \u2018sift and test it by proof of syllable and letter\u2019. First the 1818 translation of Euripides\u2019 Cyclops<\/em>, in which Shelley challenges Schlegel through an examination of Greek moral and practical \u2018manners\u2019. Second the \u2018Ode to Naples\u2019, which meditates on our classical inheritance in a form and a place heavy with the weight of tradition. These close readings appreciate the revitalising function of Shelley\u2019s Greek\u2014a process in which the poet \u2018marks the before unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension\u2019\u2014whereby the ancient past is recruited both to question our cultural present and to speculate on alternative futures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next meeting of the\u00a0London-Paris Romanticism Seminar\u00a0will take place on Friday 15 November 2024 in Room 243 (second floor), Senate House, University of London, starting at 5.30 pm.\u00a0As our distinguished guest speaker, we are delighted to welcome\u00a0Dr Will Bowers of Queen Mary University of London, who will present a paper entitled\u00a0Shelley’s Plastic Greek.\u00a0This will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}