【学院系列讲座】“The kindness of my Friends in England”

学院系列讲座：文学、文化和社会

School Seminar Series: Literature, Culture and Society

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: 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.

学院系列讲座：文学、文化和社会”（School Seminar Series: Literature, Culture and Society）由外院几位文学方 向的老师共同创建，以跨学科和交叉学科讨论会的形式，建立教师交流、讨论及合作的平台，希望以此活跃并加强学院的文学研究气氛。活动每 月举办1-2次，讲座由40-60分钟的论文发言与30分钟的讨论组成。

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