6 Nov 2014 | All day | CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT |
- Description
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Description
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How did nineteenth-century novels re-articulate, interrogate, and revise the biblical and classical past?
In what ways did contemporary approaches to biblical interpretation and classical scholarship influence the development of the novel as a form?
Our speakers will investigate how novelists explored contemporary developments in archaeology, textual scholarship, philosophy, and overseas travel; the impact of fiction on approaches to the Bible and classical texts; and the problems of redrafting the bible and ancient history as fiction.
Speakers:
- Professor Norman Vance (Sussex)
- Dr Brian Murray (CRASSH)
- Dr Victoria Mills (Cambridge)
- Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm (Cambridge)
Convenors:
Administrative assistance: eeh39@cam.ac.uk
We are unable to arrange or book accommodation for delegates (other than the invited speakers), however, the following websites may be of help:
University of Cambridge Accommodation
This event is supported by funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ ERC grant agreement no 295463
Programme
Thursday 6th November 2014 | |
9.30 - 10.00 | Registration |
10.00 - 11.15 | Brian Murray (CRASSH) 'Apocryphal tales: martyrology and the Victorian novel' Response: Elizabeth Ludlow (Anglia Ruskin) |
11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee break |
11.45 - 13.00 | Jan-Melissa Schramm (Cambridge) 'The Theological work of the nineteenth-century novel: from justice to mercy' Response: Alison Wood (Cambridge) |
13.00 - 13.45 | Lunch |
13.45 - 15.00 | Victoria Mills (Cambridge) Fiction, illustration and the classical past: Hypatia in the 1890s Response: Kate Nichols (CRASSH) |
15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee break |
15.30 - 16.45 | Norman Vance (Sussex) 'Myth, religion and the truth of fiction' Response: Simon Goldhill (CRASSH) |
16.45 - 18.00 | Reception in Atrium |