[School Seminar Series] “The kindness of my Friends in England”, 31 May

Last updated:2016-05-24

Topic: “The kindness of my Friends in England”: Chinese Visitors to Britain in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and the Discourses of Friendship and Estrangement
Speaker: Professor Peter KITSON (University of East Anglia, UK)
Language: English

Time: 10:30AM, Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Venue: Room 403, School of Foreign Languages Building, South Campus, Sun Yat-sen University
Organizer: School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University

Peter J. Kitson is Professor of English at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Forging Romantic China: Sino-British Cultural Exchange, 1760-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Romantic Literature, Race and Colonial Encounter (Palgrave 2007) and (with Debbie Lee and Tim Fulford), Romantic Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge (Cambridge, 2004). He is the editor of the multi-volume editions, Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings from the British Romantic Period, 1780–1830 ( Pickering and Chatto, 1999) and Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Expansion 1770-1835 (Pickeing and Chatto, 2000-2001) and edited (with Tim Fulford), Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Professor Kitson has served as President of the British Association for Romantic Studies (2007-2011) and President of the English Association (2006-2010) of which he is an Honorary Fellow.

School Seminar Series in 2016 Spring Semester:

Date	Speaker & Work Title	Language
2016.3.10	Gao Wenping On Mrs. Dalloway: A Human Geography Perspective	Chinese
2016.3.24	Liu Yuyu The Russian Sailor as Subversion to Marlow’s Narrative in Heart of Darkness	English
2016.4.14	Wang Beibei Friedrich Schiller’s Tragedy and Aesthetic Education — A study of Maria Stuarda	Chinese
2016.4.21	Chiu Gang-yan “Empire’s Repository”：Walter Scott’s Writing, Collection and Reading of China	English
2016.5.12	Zhu Yu Wordsworth as a Listener	Chinese
2015.5.19	Dai Fan Approaching Literature through Creative Writing	English/Chinese
2015.5.30	Zhou Xiaoyi Middle Class Fantasy as the Metonymy of Global Class Conflicts	Chinese
2015.5.31	Peter KITSON “The kindness of my Friends in England”: Chinese Visitors to Britain in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and the Discourses of Friendship and Estrangement	English
2016.6.9	Ou Hong Aspects of Literature and Technology	Chinese
2016.6.16	Zhou Hui The Reception and Reconstruction of French Theories in America	Chinese