Events

In the fourth paper in our 2019/20 seminar series, Angus Gowland from UCL explores the relationship between solitude and melancholy, looking forward and back from the vantage point of 1651.

In the third paper in our 2019/20 seminar series, Andrea Brady from Queen Mary University of London discusses the relationship between poetry and solitude in the American prison system.

In the second paper in our 2019/20 seminar series, Amy Hungerford from Yale University charts the history of reading practices and their relationship with solitude.

Amy Hungerford is the Bird White Housum Professor of English at Yale University, and will deliver this lecture as part of her Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London.

In the first paper in our 2019/20 seminar series, Mark Lee from the University of Oxford explores devotional solitude through the lens of ‘religious insanity’ in the nineteenth century.

Join us in discovering what Marion Milner calls ‘butterfly thoughts’, which flutter in from nowhere and are gone in a moment, in Chapter 8 – ‘Discovering that Thought Can be Blind’ – of A Life of One’s Own.