Conferences Archive (1987-1988)

The Romantics and Us: A Public Humanities Conference

April 22-24, 1988
Chicago Circle Center, 750 South Halsted
University of Illinois at Chicago

The Romantics and Us is a public humanities project which has as its centerpiece a conference tracing the literary, cultural, and social connections of the literature and art of the early nineteenth century to that of our own century.

The conference has been planned in conjunction with the critically acclaimed international exhibition, William Wordsworth and the Age of English and the Age of English Romanticism, which will appear at the Chicago Historical Society, April 6-June 5, 1988.

Both the conference and the exhibition are designed for nonspecialist audiences with diverse cultural interests. Conference sessions at UIC will be open to the public free of charge.

FRIDAY, April 22

2:00-4:30 P.M.: Romanticism and the Visual Arts
James Chandler, University of Chicago
The Historical Novel at the Movies: Scott, Griffith, and Film Epic Today

Karl Kroeber, Columbia University
Ethical Narratives in Romantic and Modern Painting

7:00-9:30 P.M.: Wordsworth and Contemporary Poetry
Charles Altieri, University of Washington
Wordsworth in Contemporary Poetry: Some Conditions for Eloquence

Diane Wakoski, Michigan State University
Whitman? No, Wordsworth: The Song of Myself

SATURDAY, April 23

1:00 P.M.: Developing Public and Educational Programs on Romanticism
A panel discussion

2:00-4:30 P.M.: Romanticism and Modern Culture
George Bornstein, University of Michigan
Romancing the (Native) Stone: Yeats and Stevens

Cliffors Siskin, Wayne State University
Wordsworth’s prescriptions: Romanticism and Professional Power

7:00-9:30 P.M.: Romanticism and Women
Anne K. Mellor, UCLA
Why Women Didn’t Like Romanticism: The views of Mary Shelly and Jane Austen

Alicia Ostriker, Rutgers University
The Road of Excess: My William Blake

Major support for this project was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency.

The Romantics and Us: A Sunday Lecture Series

The Chicago Historical Society
Clark Street at North Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60614

April 10, 17, 24, and May 1, 1988

The Romantics and Us is a public Humanities project tracing the literary, cultural, and social connections of the literature and art of the early nineteenth century to that of our own century.

The project has been planned in conjunction with the critically acclaimed international exhibition, William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism, which will be appearing at the Chicago, Historical Society, April 6-June 5, 1988.

The project will bring to the Chicago Historical Society on four consecutive Sundays some of the most distinguished poets in the land. They have agreed to talk about the relations they see between the literature of the Romantic period and the literature of our own century. Both the lecture series and the exhibition are designed for nonspecialist audiences with diverse cultural interests. Both students and teachers of literature, art, and history in the colleges and the universities should find the programs attractive.

APRIL 10, 1988 at 2 PM
Louis Simpson, SUNY-Stony Brook
“The Man Freed from the Order of Time”: Poetic Theory in Wordsworth and Proust

APRIL 17, 1988 at 2 PM
John Matthias, Notre Dame University
Places and Poems: A Self-Reading and a Reading of the Self in the Romantic Context from Wordsworth to Parkman

APRIL 24, 1988 at 2 PM
John Hollander, Yale University
Poetry on Painting and Sculpture: Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary

MAY 1, 1988 at 2 PM
Robert Pinsky, University of California
Urban Landscapes, Romantic and Modern

Major support for this project was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency.