Programme
From Republic to Restoration
Tuesday 6th July
2010
2.00-3.00
Nigel Smith (Princeton), ‘Andrew Marvell and
Republicanism in Hull’
TEA
3.30-5.00
Session 1 seminar room 4
Marcus Nevitt (Sheffield), ‘From Republic to
Restoration: Interregnum Royalism and Restoration Drama’
Marissa Nicosia (Pennsylvania),
'Paratext, Commonplacing and the Desire for History in The
Famous Tragedie of King Charles I (1649) and Cromwell’s
Conspiracy (1660)
Kevin Killeen (York), ‘Hanging up
Kings: the Political Bible in Early Modern England’
Session 2 seminar room 5
Klaudia Laczynska (Warsaw),
‘From Masque to Masquerade: Changing Status of Art in Marvell’s
Poems’
Keith McDonald (Royal Holloway),
‘Marvell in Manuscript and Print: The Public and Private
Experiences of 1649-1660’
Sharon Young (Worcester), ‘Restoring
the country house: Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies’
RECEPTION
Wednesday 7th July
2010
10.00-11.00
Laura
Knoppers (Penn State), ‘‘You shall be our
Generalless’: Margaret Cavendish and Royalist Rewritings of English
Civil War History'
COFFEE
11.30- 1.00
Session 1
Hilary Menges (Yale), ‘The
Power of the Book: Milton, Charles I and Literary History’
Edward Paleit (Exeter), ‘Horace
restored? Alexander Brome’s The Poems of Horace (1666) and
the Politics of Poetic Community’
Marissa Greenberg (University of
New Mexico), ‘The restoration of Tragedy in Milton’s London’
Session 2
Christina Carlson (Emerson
College), ‘“A Child of Heathen Hobbs”: Political Prints of the
Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis – The Revision of a Republican
Mode’
Lisanna Calvi (Verona), ‘“Once a
Year before thy Statue Fall”: The Theatrical Sublimation of the
Republican Ethos in Nathaniel Lee’s Lucius Junius
Brutus’
Dan Gustafson (Yale), ‘Tory
Reactions: Memory, Theater, and Royalism in the 1680s’
LUNCH
2.00-3.30
Music Panel Chair: Christopher Wilson
Bruce Wood (Bangor), ‘From Caroline Masque to
Restoration Opera: Aspects of Courtly Reinstatement’
Bryan White (Leeds), ‘Restoration Opera and the
Failure of patronage’.
TEA
4.00-5.00
Blair Worden (Royal Holloway), ‘Why did the
Restoration happen?’
Thursday 8th July
2010
10-11.00
Tom Corns (Bangor), ‘John Dryden: from
Heroic Stanzas to Annus Mirabilis’
11.30-12-30
Paul Seaward (Director of History of
Parliament), ‘Clarendon and Hobbes on the Devil’s Mountain: looking
back to 1668’
2.00 Bus departs for Burton Agnes
7.00 Conference dinner
Friday 9th July
2010
10.00 -11.00
Glenn Burgess (Hull), ‘Monarchy
and Commonwealth: “Republican” Defences of Monarchy in the
1660s’
COFFEE
11.30-12.30
Olivia Smith (Ghent), ‘“The
Constituents of our Spaw”: Water Politics in the Seventeenth
Century’
Ionut Untea (EPHE–Sorbonne),
‘Engagement Controversy, Republicanism and Thomas Hobbes’s
“Intolerant Tolerance”’
LUNCH ‘Old Grey Mare’
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