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On Sentimentality

Edwin Landseer, 'Windsor Castle in Modern Times' (1841-1845)

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 1.00PM to 5.00pm

According to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, sentimentality is "at the defining centre of [...] many judgements, political as well as aesthetic" that impinge today on "every issue of national identity, postcolonial populism, religious fundamentalism, high versus mass culture, relations among races, to children, to other species, to the earth, as well as most obviously between and within genders and sexualities".

If that is true, what might be at stake in the fact that Victorian culture still represents the locus classicus of the sentimental?

This seminar offers an extended opportunity to think about the category of the sentimental, as viewpoint, spectacle, attribution and accusation, across a number of periods, places and disciplines. The afternoon will include refreshments and will begin with a position paper by Dr. Nicola Bown (Birkbeck).

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For more information, contact Jason Edwards.

Location: The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building

Email: jason.edwards@york.ac.uk