日本英文学会関東支部メールマガジン 臨時号 2026年10月1日
2026/10/01 (Thu) 15:15
日本英文学会関東支部メールマガジン
臨時号 2026年10月1日
大石 和欣先生（東京大学）よりお知らせです。
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Seminar on Romanticism in Context
ウィリアム・ブレイクと１８世紀末の生命論
Dr. Tara Lee
The University of Hong Kong
William Blake and Romantic Biology:
Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form
Time and Date: 17:30-19:00, 15 October 2026, Thursday [10月15日（木）]
Venue: Collaboration Room 2, Building 18, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo
[東京大学駒場キャンパス １８号館 コラボ２]
William Blake and Romantic Biology（Cambridge UP, 2026）を上梓したタラ・リー博士（香港大学）を招き、ウィリアム・ブレイクを中心に、18世紀末の発生学、生命論、進化論がロマン主義において持つ意味を、科学・神学・政治思想・美学の領域を横断しながら考えます。どうぞご参加ください。
Abstract: In William Blake and Romantic Biology, Tara Lee shows how Blake’s illuminated books were shaped by Romantic-era debates about the self-organizing nature of living form. Situating Blake within a range of scientific, theological, political, and aesthetic discourses about the nature of life itself, Lee shows how Blake’s biological myth was held in tension between the mobility of vital matter and openness of evolutionary change on the one hand, and the resilience of preformed identities and flexibility of virtual structures on the other. Ultimately, William Blake and Romantic Biology invites scholars to reconceptualise Romantic-period definitions of vitality and consider the implications this might have on our understandings of Romantic poetics and aesthetic thought more generally.
Dr. Tara Lee is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She received her DPhil in English Literature from Oxford University and recently published her first monograph, William Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form (2026) with Cambridge University Press. Her research, which spans across the fields of Romantic poetics, ecocriticism, and literature and science, can be found in such journals as Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Studies in Romanticism, and The Keats-Shelley Review. Her next projects, funded by the HKRGC, explore the intersections between early nineteenth-century machine cultures and Romantic poetry, especially poetry by women.
To attend via Zoom, please fill in the Google Form below.
https://forms.gle/FjM6EAgofD1aKk548
For further information and queries:
Kaz Oishi（大石和欣） via romanticregenerations@gmail.com
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臨時号 2026年10月1日
大石 和欣先生（東京大学）よりお知らせです。
******************************************************
Seminar on Romanticism in Context
ウィリアム・ブレイクと１８世紀末の生命論
Dr. Tara Lee
The University of Hong Kong
William Blake and Romantic Biology:
Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form
Time and Date: 17:30-19:00, 15 October 2026, Thursday [10月15日（木）]
Venue: Collaboration Room 2, Building 18, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo
[東京大学駒場キャンパス １８号館 コラボ２]
William Blake and Romantic Biology（Cambridge UP, 2026）を上梓したタラ・リー博士（香港大学）を招き、ウィリアム・ブレイクを中心に、18世紀末の発生学、生命論、進化論がロマン主義において持つ意味を、科学・神学・政治思想・美学の領域を横断しながら考えます。どうぞご参加ください。
Abstract: In William Blake and Romantic Biology, Tara Lee shows how Blake’s illuminated books were shaped by Romantic-era debates about the self-organizing nature of living form. Situating Blake within a range of scientific, theological, political, and aesthetic discourses about the nature of life itself, Lee shows how Blake’s biological myth was held in tension between the mobility of vital matter and openness of evolutionary change on the one hand, and the resilience of preformed identities and flexibility of virtual structures on the other. Ultimately, William Blake and Romantic Biology invites scholars to reconceptualise Romantic-period definitions of vitality and consider the implications this might have on our understandings of Romantic poetics and aesthetic thought more generally.
Dr. Tara Lee is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She received her DPhil in English Literature from Oxford University and recently published her first monograph, William Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form (2026) with Cambridge University Press. Her research, which spans across the fields of Romantic poetics, ecocriticism, and literature and science, can be found in such journals as Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Studies in Romanticism, and The Keats-Shelley Review. Her next projects, funded by the HKRGC, explore the intersections between early nineteenth-century machine cultures and Romantic poetry, especially poetry by women.
To attend via Zoom, please fill in the Google Form below.
https://forms.gle/FjM6EAgofD1aKk548
For further information and queries:
Kaz Oishi（大石和欣） via romanticregenerations@gmail.com
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