The next Romantic Novels 1817 Seminar will take place on Friday, 21 July, at 6pm, with Dr Thomas McLean (Otago) leading us through a discussion of Jane Porter's The Pastor's Fire-Side. This session will take place at the University of Greenwich, in the Queen Mary Building, 2nd Floor, Room 268. See link to campus map here: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/465729/Greenwich_Campus.pdf.
Jane Porter’s novels helped shape British historical fiction, and The Pastor’s Fire-side is her most ambitious achievement. Though it opens and closes at the peaceful Lindisfarne fireside of the eponymous pastor, the narrative carries the protagonist Louis de Montemar across the continent and into the political machinations of the European courts and the Jacobite cause. Porter mixes fictional creations, like Louis, with historical figures, like the notorious Baron Ripperda and the Jacobite rake Duke Philip Wharton. In this presentation Dr McLean will introduce Jane Porter, provide an overview of her novel, and consider a few 1817 rakes who were perhaps on Porter’s mind when creating Wharton—namely the poet Lord Byron and the actor Edmund Kean. The presentation will also draw some parallels between Porter’s novel and a more famous work written a little later in 1817, Walter Scott’s Rob Roy.
You can access The Pastor's Fire-Side for free here:
Volume 1: https://books.google.vu/books?id=RTg1AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Volume 2: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.39130/2015.39130.The-Pastors-Fire-Side--Vol2#page/n3/mode/2up
Volume 3: https://books.google.com.cu/books?id=1x0GAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Volume 4: https://books.google.pn/books?id=aTo1AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Thomas McLean is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire (2012) and editor of Further Letters of Joanna Baillie (2010). His current research project, Global Romantics: How the Porter Family Changed Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature, is funded by a three-year Marsden grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand. It examines the lives and works of nineteenth-century British novelists Jane and Anna Maria Porter and their brother, the artist and traveler Sir Robert Ker Porter.
This session is free and open to the public, but for catering purposes, we would ask that you email us to let us know if you are planning to attend. Details of further sessions can be found below.
We look forward to seeing you in July.
Best wishes
Susan (CCCU) and Claire (Greenwich)
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