6.0480 1993 NEH Summer Seminars: 18th Century Culture (1/89)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 4 Feb 1993 12:43:45 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0480. Thursday, 4 Feb 1993.
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 10:32:14 PST
From: 6500lc01@UCSBUXA.BITNET (Lorna Clymer)
Subject: NEH Summer Seminars
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Announcing: 1993 NEH SUMMER SEMINARS
These summer seminars may be of particular interest to those
concerned with eighteenth-century culture. If the brief
descriptions given here are of interest, please inquire
further from the listed director. Stipend: $3600.
Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 1993. Note:
U.S. citizens and long-term residents only are eligible.
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**ROUSSEAU AND BLAKE: INVENTING THE MODERN SELF**
Harvard University
June 14 - July 30
Directed by Leo Damrosch
A study of the imaginative roots of modern notions of the
self, placing Rousseau and Blake in dialogue with each other
and with later writers. Applications are invited from
persons interested in a wide range of fields, such as
literature, history of ideas, philosophy, psychology, art
history.
Applications and further information: Leo Damrosch, English
Department, Warren House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
02138. Telephone messages: (617) 630-0333.
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**THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL:
A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW**
University of California at Berkeley
June 15 - July 29
Directed by Ralph W. Rader
A consideration of the novel as a sharply distinctive,
historically emergent form which develops in its mainline
"plotted suspense" structure through several stages, from
_Pamela_ through the Richardson-to-Austen novel of moral
action, the Victorian "baggy monster" novel, and the early
modern novels of Hardy and Conrad, before this structure, in
effect an objective fantasy, gives way to the classic modern
novel of transfigured reality as written by Joyce, Woolf,
and Lawrence.
Applications and further information: Ralph W. Rader,
English Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA
94720. Fax inquiries: (510) 642-8738.
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**EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SATIRE AND THEORIES OF SATIRE**
Emory University
June 14 - July 30
Directed by John Sitter
A reconsideration of satiric poetry and prose from 1690-1760
in light of the period's philosophic strains and recent
theories of satire, irony, and parody. Readings include
works by Swift, Shaftesbury, Pope, Locke, Prior, Berkeley,
Hogarth, Henry Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox,
and Johnson. College teachers and independent scholars in
literature and adjacent fields are welcome to apply.
Applications and further information: John Sitter, English
Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. Telephone:
(404) 727-6420; fax: (404) 727-2605.
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**EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY HISTORIOGRAPHY AND FICTION**
University of California at Santa Barbara
June 21 - August 6
Directed by Everett Zimmerman
An examination of the interrelationships of history and
fiction in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain,
with a focus on the ways experience is structured to make it
intelligible. The proposed readings include texts by
Ricoeur, Hume, Gibbon, Defoe, Sterne, and Scott.
Applications are invited from those interested in
literature, history, and related fields.
Applications and further information: Everett Zimmerman,
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 3591 Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
Telephone messages: (805) 893-3907; e-mail:
ezimmer@humanitas.ucsb.edu
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