The Afterlives of Percy Shelley, Schoolboy Rebel

With Dr. James Brooke-Smith (University of Ottawa), on Wednesday, April 16th, at 2.30 pm, in the Gordon Wood Lounge (Dunton Tower Rm. 1811). 

This talk comes out of James's very fresh research on Percy Shelley's time at Eton and his subsequent reception within the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. It explores Shelley's afterlife as an icon of aesthetic rebellion within the stultifying world of the school. 

James's research also encompasses the classical curriculum and its different instantiations in the nineteenth-century schoolroom and even in nonsense verse, and the clever ways that schoolboys dodged disciplinary measures. 



"The Schoolmaster's Return," 1825, courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library.

Refreshments will be served, and they will be much nicer than 18th-c boarding-school food.
PS - this depicts James's subject, and not (we hope) the CORAL audience!