Thursday, Nov. 10 3:30pm-4:30pm Each generation seeks to translate transcendence and define sacred space for itself. John Ruskin and Lilias Trotter sought beauty and truth in their own time. The Washington Arts Group (WAG) does the same today. WAG is a non-profit…
19CRS has some exciting news! Starting in the summer of 2017, a graduate-level study abroad program in nineteenth-century studies will be offered through the English department. The course is sponsored by the Armstrong Browning Library and Baylor University Libraries, and by Baylor’s English…
In his new book The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain, Dr. Joseph Stubenrauch (History, Baylor) argues that British evangelicals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries invented new methods of spreading the gospel, as well as new forms of personal religious practice,…
Friday, Sept. 16th, 2016 Dr. Chris Ferguson (History, Auburn) will present “Learned Tailor or Literary Man? James Carter in the Rise of Modern Britain.” The London tailor James Carter published an autobiography, three other books, and fifty works of poetry. Yet contemporary reviewers,…
Thursday, Oct. 20th Dr. Adam Potkay (English, William and Mary) will present, “Something Evermore about to Be: The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era.” His argument is this: hope, once a theological virtue and potential secular vice, features in the eighteenth century as…
Christianity and Literature CFP: The Secular and the Literary In the past decade we have seen a surge of interest in secularism (as a mode of governance) and “the secular” (as a background condition of modernity). The terms of debate have by now…
Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain edited by Dr. Gareth Atkins (Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Magdalene College, Cambridge) was recently published by Manchester University Press. It is available to order online at: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719096860/ or by post. Please see this flier…
Augusta Webster, A Woman Sold and Other Poems. 1st ed. 1867 (ABLibrary 19thCent PR5766.W2 W66 1867) Rare Item Analysis by Carina Zuniga Augusta Webster succeeded Robert Browning and Lord Alfred Tennyson in her use of the dramatic monologue, but she added a flare of…
John Keble. The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the Year. 2nd ed. Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter, for J. Parker and C. and J. Rivington, 1827 (ABL 19thC Collection PR4839.K15 C4 1827) Charlotte M. Yonge. Musings over the “Christian…
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam. Third ed. London: Edward Moxon, 1850 with inscription and annotations. (ABLibrary Rare X 821.81 T312in 1850b) Rare Item Analysis: Early Edition of In Memoriam owned by Emily Jesse (née Tennyson) by Meg Wilder The Armstrong Browning Library holds a unique item…