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Travel writers and their landscapes
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Travel writers and their landscapes
Online symposium via MS Teams, Friday 24th March 2023
To register and receive the Teams link, please email Jeremy Burchardt – j.burchardt@reading.ac.uk
10.00 Welcome and introductions
10.05 Kathryn Walchester (Liverpool John Moores): ‘Landscape as Solace and Distraction in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Italian Letters (1747-56)’
10.25 Questions and discussion
10.45 Rebecca Ford: Landscape and the sense of place [title TBC]
11.05 Questions and discussion
11.25 Break
11.35 Matthew White (King’s College London): ‘“Those features … in strongest relief”: British Travellers in the American West & English landscape, c. 1870-1905’
11.55 Questions and discussion
13.00 Symposium ends