The Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, The Enlightenment & Romanticism Research Network and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) invite BLHN members and friends to a seminar on The Violence of Affection in Pride and Prejudice by Professor Harriet Guest, University of York. Wed 16 July 5pm to 8pm @ Ship Inn Function Room, Sidon Street, Southbank. (Level 2, access via the Griffith University Graduate Centre) RSVP: to Penny Boys via email [email protected] for catering purposes (Drinks and canapés will be served). Mr Collins protests the strength of his affection for Elizabeth Bennet in Austens novel in terms that seem to expose the incongruity of his language and feelings. This lecture explores the competition between different languages of emotion in the novel in the context of the emphasis on the need for the successful social expression of feeling in the period. Is Collins an inadequate suitor, or is he just lost for words in an age when the relation between interiority and articulation is increasingly difficult? Professor Harriet Guest is a founding member and former director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York. A leading innovator in literary studies, she has published a wide range of books on the literature and history of the eighteenth century, including Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810 (University of Chicago Press, 2000), Empire, Barbarism and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and most recently Unbounded Attachment: Sentiment and Politics in the Age of the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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