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CECS Day Conference

Saturday 19 June 1999

Dreams of the Millennium 1650-1850

Programme

9.30-10.00 Coffee

10.00-10.15 John Barrell introduces James Gillray's satire on Richard Brothers

10.15-11.15 Chris Clark (University of Warwick): 'Utopias and the millennium in early America'

11.15-11.30 Coffee

11.30-1.00 Graduate Panel
Julie Hirst: 'The millenarian ideas of Jane Lead (1624-1704)
Emma Major: 'Femininity and religion in Sarah Scott's Millennium Hall (1762)
John Langdon: 'A Pocket Edition of the New Jerusalem: the Manea Fen Community 1839-41'

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.00 Jon Mee: 'The Strange Career of Richard 'Citizen' Lee: Poetry, Popular Radicalism and Enthusiasm in the 1790s'

3.00-3.15 Tea

3.15-4.00 Panel: Greg Dart (Chair), Malcolm Chase and Joanna de Groot will lead a discussion on future perspectives