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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture
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Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Research Seminar, run by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. All welcome!
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Jun 12
www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/fi...
Fixed-Term Lectureship in English - Mansfield College
Mansfield College intends to appoint a fixed-term Lecturer in English (Literature in English 1660-1830). The successful candidate will be expected to teach...
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Jun 4
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Jun 2
Tomorrow Tuesday 3 June at 5.30 pm Professor Tom Jones (St Andrews) will be talking about Phillis Wheatley Peters’ poetry @Mansfield College.
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · May 4
We're delighted to announced our programme for the term.

We kick off on Tuesday with Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississippi).

All welcome, as always!
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Mar 5
In a change to our originally advertised schedule, we'll be hosting a double header on Tuesday 11th March. All welcome!
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Mar 4
Don't miss @juliepark.bsky.social - today at 5.30pm in the Massey Room, Balliol College. All welcome!
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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Mar 2
Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Mar 2
Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Feb 9
This Tuesday we'll be hearing @gabriellabird.bsky.social & @davidftaylor.bsky.social talk about reviving Centlivre's The Busy Body in a collab between @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social @creationtheatre.bsky.social & Oxford's Cultural Programme.

5.30 @ Seminar Room East, Mansfield College. All welcome!
Poster for Susanna Centlivre's The Busy Body, showing a masked eighteenth-century woman.
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Jan 15
We're excited to reveal our programme for the term, featuring @davidftaylor.bsky.social, Gabriella Bird Katharine Boehm,
@juliepark.bsky.social, and Peter Sabor.

As always, all welcome!
Week 4: Tues. 11 Feb., 5.30-7pm DAVID TAYLOR (Oxford) and director GABRIELLA BIRD Reviving Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body for the 21st-century Stage Week 6: Tues. 25 Feb., 5.30-7pm KATHARINA BOEHM (University of Passau, Germany) Tangible Pasts: Antiquarian Culture and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century Week 7: Tues. 4 March., 5.30-7pm JULIE PARK (Penn State University) Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing * Joint event with the Romanticism Seminar* Week 8: Tues. 11 March, 12.30-1.45pm PETER SABOR (McGill University) “The capital pen of a sister author”: Reading Frances Burney with Jane Austen * Sandwich lunch provided* Weeks 4, 6, 8: Seminar Room East, Mansfield College Week 7: Massey Room, Balliol College All welcome. SEMINAR LEADERS: Ros Ballaster, Christine Gerrard, Nicole Pohl, Tess Somervell, David Taylor, Carly Watson, Abigail Williams.
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Nov 18
Good question.

Think: how we are and should be digitizing the 18th century archive, along with the possibilities and difficulties of such projects.

Do check out www.e-enlightenment.com for a sense of what we'll be discussing.
Electronic Enlightenment — letters & lives online
Electronic Enlightenment, University of Oxford. Digitizing letters from the 17th–19th centuries, EE reconnects the first global social network.
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Nov 18
We're excited to be talking the digital #18thcentury with Nicole Pohl and @jarona7.bsky.social of the @eenlightenment.bsky.social tomorrow (19th) from 12.30-1.45pm.

Do join us in Seminar Room East at Mansfield College. A sandwich lunch will be provided.
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Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hello! Hope we're not late to the party over here.

Here's our list of speakers for this term. Do join us next week for what promises to be a fascinating session from by Electronic Enlightenment team.
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