Event 3
For Day 1, David Knight’s plenary lecture
R. Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (London: HarperCollins, 2008). Chapter 6.
M. Jay, The Atmosphere of Heaven: the Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009). Section on Davy.
D. Knight, The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity, 1789-1914 (Cambridge: Polity, 2009). Chapters 1 and 2.
W. St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Chapters 10 and 11.
For Day 1, Michael Hunter’s seminar
Michael Hunter, Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007)
Michael Hunter, ‘Whither Editing?’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 34 (2003), 805-20
‘Digitizing Correspondence Workshop Report’ (17 September 2009)
For Day 2, required reading
Sam Alberti, ‘Objects and the Museum’, Isis, 96 (2005), 559-71
Simon Naylor, ‘Introduction: Historical Geographies of Science – Places, Contexts, Cartographies’, British Journal for the History of Science, 38 (2005), 1-12
For Day 2, suggested reading
Joseph Conrad, ‘The Partner’
For Day 2, John McAleer’s session
Harriet Guest, ‘The Great Distinction: Figures of the Exotic in the Work of William Hodges’, Oxford Art Journal, 12:2 (1989), 36-58
Bernard Smith, ‘European Vision and the South Pacific’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 13 (1950), 65-100
For Day 2, Gillian Hutchinson’s session
J. B. Harley, ‘Maps, Knowledge, and Power’, in New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography, ed. by Paul Laxton (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), pp. 52-82