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Date/Time
Location
Event  

Fall
2010
Friday 11/19
12:00



Grad Lounge,
Padelford

Lauren Grant will share the first chapter of her dissertation entitled, "Education in Daniel Defoe's Review: 'AN Entertaining Part in every Sheet.'"



Fall
2010
Wednesday 11/17
TBA




TBA


***The 19th Century Studies Group***
Robert Browning Session
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Summer

2010
Tuesday 7/27
3:30



Grad Lounge,

Padelford

Katherine Voyles will present the fourth chapter of her dissertation, "Trollope Through the Window-Pane."  Katherine's dissertation is entitled Negotiations of Size and Scale in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.


Spring Quarter
2010
Thursday 5/27
3:30



Grad Lounge, Padelford


Joann Kelly will share a chapter of her dissertation entitled, "Revising Phrenology: Embodying Agency in the Physiological Theories of Alexander Bain and George Eliot."

Spring Quarter 2010
Thursday, 4/22
1:00



Burke Museum Cafe

***The 19th Century Studies Group***
An open discussion will be held on selections from Suzy Anger's Victorian Interpretations
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Winter Quarter
2010
Thursday, 2/25
3:30



Grad Lounge,
Padelford

Professor Tom Lockwood will share "Outlaw Print and Bottom-Feeding Printers," an essay that began as a talk given at Penn State.  Professor Lockwood hopes to publish the essay as a freestanding article some time in the future.  Distribution information will be available shortly.


Winter Quarter
2010
Thursday, 2/4
3:30



The Big Time Brewery


***The 19th Century Studies Group***
Aaron Ottinger will lead a discussion on "Form in Eighteenth and Nineteenth- Century Studies."
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Fall Quarter
2009
Thursday, 11/5
3:30 pm



Grad Lounge, Padelford


Traynor Hansen will share his MA essay "Thomas De Quincey and the Problem of Reporting" which he is currently revising for publication.


Fall Quarter

2009
Thursday,11/12 3pm



Burke Cafe

***The 19th Century Studies Group***
Round Table Discussion: What is the current state of our field?
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Spring Quarter
2009
Thursday,4/23
3:30 - 5:00 pm

Grad Lounge,
Padelford

Professor Charles LaPorte will share "Whose Industrial Muse?  Alexander Smith and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetic Autobiography," an essay that he is currently revising for future publication. For a copy of this piece, contact either Lauren Grant (lgrant@u.washington.edu) or Juliet Shields (js37@u.washington.edu).


Spring Quarter
2009
Friday 5/8
1:00 pm


Cafe on the Ave


****The 19th Century Studies Group****
Jane Lee and Kellie Holzer will lead a discussion of
Schreiner's "The Story of an African Farm" and selections from Heilman's New Woman Strategies
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Winter Quarter
2008
Friday, 2/6
1:00-2:30pm

Comm 202

Maria DeBlassie will workshop her Master's Essay
"Voluptuous Minds: Erotic and Intellectual Stimulation in Wollstonecraft's Wrongs of Women"



The 18th and 19th Century Works-in-Progress Group at the University of Washington, Seattle  
Graphic: details from Francis Coates, "Paul Sandby." 1761, Tate Britain, London; Joseph Wright of Derby, "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump." 1768. National Gallery, London; 
William Hogarth, "Scholars at a Lecture." 1736; Thomas Gainsborough, "Mr and Mrs Andrews." 1748-49. National Gallery, London. 
If you have any question or concerns regarding this website please contact lgrant@u.washington.edu