The MHRA Centenary Lectures

Edited by Graham Nelson

Lectures

Modern Humanities Research Association

14 October 2020

ISBN: 978-1-781888-84-1 (Hosted on this website)

Open Access with doi: 10.59860/cl.b16925a


The Modern Humanities Research Association was founded in the summer of 1918, as a network of scholars of European language and culture — "including English", as the MHRA's descriptions of itself have many times added over the years. In its first century, the Association developed into a major publisher and funding body, but remained true to its roots as a gathering of scholars. The 1968 half-centenary was marked by a conference and book — a radical new step for the MHRA as it was then — and in 2018 the Centenary saw a similarly bold venture, with a programme of major public lectures presented across Britain and Ireland.

The texts of those lectures are gathered here as an ebook, with a Preface by Barbara Burns, who began the year as Hon. Secretary but ended it Hon. Chair.

Contents:

1

Preface
Barbara Burns
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The Conditions of our Culture
Thomas Docherty
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3

‘Making this thing other’: Transforming Manuscripts in the Contemporary Age
Elaine Treharne
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4

Why is Don Quixote the first modern novel?
Edwin Williamson
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The Tears of Isaac: Cultures of Language, Languages of Culture
Alberto Manguel
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The Realm of Dreams: Impressions from a Journey through its Cultural, Literary and Artistic History
Manfred Engel
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Sound, Gesture, Image: Translations of Performance and Genre in the Digital Age
Marina Warner
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Crossing Textual Boundaries: Why Translation Matters
Susan Bassnett
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Utopia for Modern Languages and How We Can Get There
Michael Cronin
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Early Modern Prose Fiction: How to Think About It without Anticipating the Novel
Roland Greene
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Gallantry in Modern France: La galanterie française
Alain Viala
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Bibliography entry:

Nelson, Graham (ed.), The MHRA Centenary Lectures (MHRA, 2020)

First footnote reference: 35 The MHRA Centenary Lectures, ed. by Graham Nelson (MHRA, 2020), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Nelson, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Nelson, Graham (ed.). 2020. The MHRA Centenary Lectures (MHRA)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Nelson 2020: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Nelson 2020: 21.

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