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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Daly, Nicholas Paul (Nick Daly)
- Abstract:
- In this episode Nicholas Daly reads from the Introduction to his book Sensation and Modernity in the 1860's published by Cambridge University Press. This is a study of high and low culture in the years before the Reform Act of 1867, which vastly increased the number of voters in Victorian Britain.... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-
- Abstract:
- In '"I have only one culture and it is not mine": Professions of English diaspora', Julian Wolfreys engages in acts of memory-work, to recover, through a focus on the voice as mnemotechnic and anamnesiac trace, the occluded and marginalized cultural differences of the regional English. Through a... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Connolly, Claire (Claire Connolly)
- Abstract:
- The emergence of four nations framework in literary and historical scholarship has helped us to arrive at a fuller understanding of the complex and overlapping histories of the islands of Britain and Ireland, while recent research into Wales and Ireland in particular has helped to make the map of... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Doody, Aude, 1977- (Aude Doody)
- Abstract:
- In his episode Aude Doody reads from the Introduction to Pliny’s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History, published by Cambridge University Press. The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Gardiner, Michael, 1970- (Michael Gardiner)
- Abstract:
- This presentation looks at the relationship between England and the British discipline of English Literature, whose origin, it argues, owes much to the state unification of Britain between 1790 and 1815, particularly informed by an anti-French-Revolutionary Burkean philosophy which was defined by... [ … ]
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- Media type:
- audio/mpeg
- Abstract:
- In his book, On the Shores of Politics, Jacques Rancière argues that the Western Platonic project of utopian politics has been based upon 'an anti-maritime polemic'. The treacherous boundaries of the political are imagined as island shores, riverbanks, and abysses. Its enemies are the mutinous... [ … ]
