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CECS Day Conference Saturday 6th May 2000

PRIVATE AFFECTIONS,
CULTURES OF SENTIMENT, 1750-1850

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Illustration: Bartolozzi, after Ramberg,
from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 1766

Speakers: James Chandler, Cora Kaplan, Marcia Pointon, John Barrell,
Fay Bound, Alasdair Brooks, Joanna de Groot, Mark Jenner, Angela Jianu

Programme

9.30 Arrival and coffee

10.00 Marcia Pointon, Portraits as artefacts in the management of sentiment in eighteenth-century England

11.00 Coffee 

11.15 Graduate panel: Perspectives on private lives

Alasdair Brooks, Some very private nations: an archaeological study of cultural identity and 18th and 19th century teawares in southwest Wales and the Outer Hebrides Fay Bound, Structuring sentiment: the authorship of affect in eighteenth-century England
Angela Jianu, The gypsies of Romania: from legal objects to objects of affection, 1700-1855

12.45 Lunch at the York Theatre Royal

1.45 Jim Chandler, The emergence of sentimental probability 

3.00 Cora Kaplan, 'The Toy Seller': affect, race and gender in Britain 1826-1865 

4.00 Tea 

4.15-5.00 Comment. Led by John Barrell, Joanna de Groot, Mark Jenner