Inaugural Seminar: Jeremy Davies (Leeds), 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture'

Please join us for the inaugural lecture of the ECEN, welcoming Dr. Jeremy Davies, Associate Professor of English at the University of Leeds. Dr. Davies is the author of two books, Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature (Routledge, 2014) and 2016's invaluable The Birth of the Anthropocene (University of California Press), as well an edited edition of Studies in Romanticism entitled 'Romantic Studies and the “Shorter Industrial Revolution,' and numerous essays, including an excellent 2018 overview of Romantic ecocriticism which can be found linked on our website (in The Commons). He is currently working on a book project entitled 'The Altered Landscape: Literature and Environmental Change in Britain, 1799–1825,' which promises to be an important intervention into the relation of literature and philosophy to material changes to landscape in the Romantic period.

Dr. Davies will be speaking to us on ‘Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’: his paper will address green Rom…