‘”He…has the ends of both his great toes frozen off”: Enslaved Fugitives in the Canadian Winter’

Online lecture given by Professor Charmaine Nelson (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design).

2/12/2020

Professor Nelson’s paper investigated ‘the specific circumstances and perils of winter escapes within the context of eighteenth-century British Quebec, examining the significant archive of fugitive slave advertisements’.

‘Bigger Love: Series, Seriality, and Financialization

Online lecture given by Professor Lauren Goodlad (Rutgers University)

This talk worked ‘across the longue durée to explore two convergences of seriality, financialization, and capitalist realism: Anthony Trollope's gradual invention of the roman-fleuve (series novel) in the 1860s and HBOs 2000s-era invention of a comparable "bigger love”.’

18/3/2021

Launch of the CVS Victorian Short Story Reading Group

An informal reading group that meets on Tuesday evenings, 5-6 pm in term. Stories discussed so far include: Thomas Hardy, ‘On the Western Circuit’; Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘The Grey Woman’, and Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Library Window’.

February 2021

Possible Persons: Dickensian Character at Play

Online lecture given by Professor Vanessa Smith (University of Sydney)

20/11/2020