Clarendon Lectures: Professor Terry Castle on 'Rococophilia'

Professor Terry Castle will be giving the Clarendon Lectures in Michaelmas Term 2011 at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays of Weeks 4 and 5 (1, 3, 8, and 10 November), in Lecture Theatre 2 of the St Cross Building. The overall title for the series is 'Rococophilia: The Eighteenth Century and British Modernism', and it will be a series of four lectures on the popular revival of eighteenth-century styles and attitudes - visual, literary, musical, erotic, philosophical, psychological - in Britain in the aftermath of the First World War.

Lecture I: 'Rococophilia: An Introduction'

Lecture II: 'Rococophilia II: Fashion, Masquerade and Jazz Age Rococo'

Lecture III: 'Dugouts and Grottos: Wyndham Lewis, Edith Sitwell, and Pope in the 1920s' 

Lecture IV: 'The Rape of Clarissa Dalloway: The Rococophile Woolf'

The first lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the SCR of the St Cross Building, and the final lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the OUP Bookshop, High Street.