The Institution of Literature: 250 Years of English Studies and Cultural Transfer

Keynote speakers: Susan Bassnett, Terry Eagleton, and Konrad Schröder.

2012 marks the 250th anniversary of the election of John Tompson as the first Professor of English at Goettingen University. His English Miscellanies was one of the first English publications ever in Germany, and was also the first anthology composed in an academic context for the purpose of the mediation of English literature and culture to German students of English. The Miscellanies was ...

Sponsoring Organization(s) : 
Department of British Literature and Culture
Event type: 
Event
Event date: 
Thursday, August 30, 2012 to Saturday, September 1, 2012
Event Location: 
Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
Abstract due date: 
Friday, February 10, 2012
Categories: 
Graduate Conference
Comparative
Interdisciplinary
British
Pedagogy
Long 18th Century
Romantics
Victorian
20th & 21st Century
Aesthetics
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