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Books, Scrapbooks and Albums
A One-day Workshop
Saturday 4 November 2006: 10.00am-6.00pm
Hosted by the Institute of English Studies for the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck College
Speakers: Lucy Peltz, Sarah Davison, Brian Maidment, Patrizia di Bello, Vicky Mills, Esther Leslie
Themes: material and visual cultures of books and collecting; extra-illustration or grangerizing; scrapbooking; album-making; binding and unbinding; cutting and pasting; the tactile and visual dimensions of books, scrapbooks, albums; books as collections, paper museums, things; bibliophilia and bibliomania.
DRAFT PROGRAMME:
9.30am |
REGISTRATION (2 nd Floor Foyer, Stewart House: 32 Russell Square , London WC1B)
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10.00am |
OPENING REMARKS
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10.15-12.30 |
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATION AND BIBLIOMANIA
Lucy Peltz (National Portrait Gallery), ' Hydra-Headed Monsters: portrait print collecting and the rise of extra-illustration in the late eighteenth century '
Sarah Davison ( Oxford ) on Max Beerbohm's Extra-illustrated Books
Vicky Mills (Birkbeck), 'Bibliomania, masculinity and the properties of touch in the late-nineteenth century'
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12.30-1.00pm |
Preliminary perusal of scrapbooks & albums on display. Participants are encouraged to read Patrizia di Bello's article on Mrs Birkbeck's Album in preparation for this Workshop (available online here)
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1.00-2.15pm |
LUNCH BREAK (own arrangements)
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2.15-4.00pm |
SCRAPBOOKING AND ALBUM-MAKING
Brian Maidment ( Salford ), 'Scraps and the Print Trade 1820-1840'
Patrizia di Bello (Birkbeck), 'Scrapbooks and albums: visual, tactile and interdisciplinary objects'
Michael Baron (Birkbeck) , 'Response: Manuscript albums of the 1820s: a literary perspective'
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4.00-4.30pm |
COFFEE BREAK
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4.30-5.15pm |
FROM ILLUMINATED PRINTING TO COMIC STRIPS
Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), 'From Childhood to Hell: Image-Text in Blake, Benjamin, Alan Moore: Writing in Images'
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5.15-6.00pm |
DISCUSSION |
6.00pm |
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Registration: £30; £20 concessions.
UK-registered MPhil and PhD students may apply through the AHRC National Research Training Scheme for English Language and Literature, Palaeography and the History of the Book for a subsidy to cover registration. Confirmation of student status must be provided on application.
Click here for the Registration Form in Word.doc format
Click here for the Registration Form in PDF format
For further information about the programme please contact Luisa Cale, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX; email: l.cale@bbk.ac.uk ; Tel +44(0)20 7631 6090
For registration and research student subsidies please contact Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU: email jon.millington@sas.ac.uk; tel +44 (0)207 664 4859.
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