Reading Group: Cora Gilroy-Ware, The Classical Body in Romantic Britain
Body in History Network
Monday 18 May 2026,12.30pm - 2pm
Learning Centre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Reading Group: Cora Gilroy-Ware, The Classical Body in Romantic Britain. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2020.
Centre for Studies in British Art, 2020.
Monday 18 May 2026, 12.30pm - 2pm
Learning Centre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
All welcome
What is the Classical body? Following our exciting keynote “Torsos in Space” from Professor Cora Gilroy-Ware, we will discuss the introduction and third chapter of her 2020 book The Classical Body in Romantic Britain. Come along to share your thoughts on sculpture, eroticism, mythology, phantasmagoria, and the dreamers and poets who have created and debated the Classical body.
Reading: Introduction & Chp. 3 [Scans to be circulated via mailing list or available from the Bodleian]
