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Letter in History conference
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:02:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Jack"
Conference on The Letter in History
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20-21 March 1996
University of Warwick
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Introduction to the conference
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The conference is organised by the Centre for Social History and the Humanities Research Centre
The conference will discuss:
--- the history and poetics of the letter --- the letter as historical artifact and literary form --- the letter as historical evidence
From 1600 to the Present day, focusing on the topics of:
letters home letters from the front business letters begging letters the epistolary form women's letter-writing mass literacy and letter writing model letters letters and masculinity
Contact details
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Please contact either: Carolyn Steedman, Centre for the Study of Social History, Tel: +44 (0)1203 523624 Fax: +44 (0)1203 524451 or Marian Franklin, Humanities Research Centre, Tel: +44 (0)1203 523401 The University of Warwick, Coventry, CN4 7AL. Email: Marian Franklin, m.franklin@warwick.ac.uk
Conference programme
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Wednesday 20th March
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09.30 - 10.30 REGISTRATION and coffee 10.30 - 11.30 Ken Worpole (London): 'Staying Close to the River: the Letter as Literary Form' 11.30 - 12.30 Daria Donnelly (Boston University): Poems or Letters? Emily Dickinson's Epistolary Poetry'
12.30 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 15.00 Toby Ditz (Johns Hopkins University): 'Mercantile Letters and the Family Romance: Writing Male Subjectivity among Eighteenth-Century Colonial Elites' 15.00 - 16.00 Ylva Hasselberg (Uppsala University): 'Letters, Social Networks and the Embedded Economy. Some Remarks on the Swedish Bourgeoisie, 1800-1850'
16.00 - 16.30 TEA
16.30 - 17.30 Susan Whyman (Princeton, New Jersey): "'Paper Visits": the Post-Restoration Letter Seen Through the Verney Archive' 17.30 - 18.30 Bridget Bennett (University of Warwick): "'Dear Mrs.Crane": Legitimate and Illegitimate Subscription Letters in the 1890s'
19.30 DINNER
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Thursday 21st March
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09.00 - 10.00 Jenny Hartley (Roehampton lnstitute London) : "'Letters are Everything These Days": Mothers and Letters in the Second World War' 10.00 - 11.00 Judy Barrett Litoff and David Smith (Bryant College and University of Maine) : 'The Letter as Historical Artifact: The World War II Correspondence of United States Women' 11.00 - 11.30 COFFEE
11.30 - 12.30 Dorothy Sheridan (Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex) : 'Six Hundred Correspondents: Letters as Social Documentary'
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 - 14.30 David Gerber (SUNY Buffalo): 'American Immigrant Correspondence: The History of its Use and Misuse' 14.30 - 15.30 Kate Teltscher (Roehampton Institute London): 'The Sentimental Ambassador: The Letters of George Bogle from the Bhutan'
15.30 - 16.00 TEA
16.00 - 17.00 Clare Brant (Kings College Uiiiversity of London) : 'Eighteenth Century Letters and History'
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Dr Jacqueline A Dempster Computing consultant/programmer Computing Services Department University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL
Tel: (01203) 524670 Fax: (01203) 523267 Email: j.a.dempster@warwick.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~cudbh/
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." |
* Ralph Waldo Emerson ```
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