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Dr Valerie Rumbold, Department of English, University of Birmingham
Monday 27 February 2012, 17:00-19:00
"'Swift's Parody: the case of *Polite Conversation* and *Directions to Servants"
- 👤 Speaker: Dr Valerie Rumbold, Department of English, University of Birmingham
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 27 February 2012, 17:00 - 19:00
- 📍 Venue: Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge
Abstract
Dr Rumbold is the author of Women’s Place in Pope’s World (Cambridge University Press, 2006). She has edited Pope’s Dunciad in Four Books of1743 (Longman Annotated Texts), and Volume 3 of The Poems of Alexander Pope for the Longman Annotated English Poets series containing The Dunciad. A Heroic Poem (1728) and The Dunciad Variorum (1729). She is currently completing a volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, which will include hoaxes, parodies and treatises on society, language and conduct: best-known among the contents of this volume are the Bickerstaff Papers, Polite Conversation and Directions to Servants.
Conveners: Howard Erskine-Hill and Adrian Lashmore-Davies
All welcome. Drinks served.
Series This talk is part of the Early modern seminar, Pembroke College, Cambridge series.
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