Romance, Revolution and Reform Research Symposium: Resistance in the Long-Nineteenth Century
University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre B
Wednesday 22nd May, 11:00-14:00
Join us to hear the latest, fascinating research from academics and students from the University of Southampton, in this free event run in association with the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth Century Research and funded by the Festival of Doctoral Research. Speakers and topics are listed below. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information and to book a place email rrr@soton.ac.uk
Stephen Bygrave: Combustible mixtures: picturing Dissent in the 1790s
Zack White: ‘A Conundrum of Command & Control: Resistance to Judicial Reform in the British Army, 1808-1818’
Katie Holdway: ‘These kennel pirates are not worth the powder and shot of the law’: Dickens, the Press and the Problem of Reprinting 1836-1837
Andrew Hinde: Resistance to the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834
Emma Clery: Resisting Power/Resisting Shame
Mark Cornwall: Female Traitors in the era of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution
Stephen Edwards: Power to the People: Resistance and Revolution in Marie Corelli’s Temporal Power (1902)
Mary Hammond: Train Travel, Reading and Dangerous Women: resisting the stereotype