Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies (SCECS)
Description
SCECS brings together specialists from a broad range of disciplines (English, History, Music, and Philosophy) and draws on a rich research culture at Southampton in eighteenth-century studies.
The centre's research interests include: aesthetics, performance practice and musicology, gender history, Romanticism, the novel (including novels in translation), garden history, crime, childhood, and slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world.
The members' expertise lies in areas Jane Austen, gender theory, women's writing, Gothic literature, eighteenth-century fiction, political economy, eighteenth-century philosophical aesthetics, Anglo-French female literary networks, slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world, gardens, landscape and aesthetics, education, crime and criminality, and writing for children.
Members of the centre develop research through regular seminars, lectures, and interdisciplinary study days.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2008
Contact details
University Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
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University of Southampton
University Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
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2023-09-20 15:00:26