{"id":162,"date":"2014-10-21T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=162"},"modified":"2014-11-15T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T12:50:53","slug":"a-positive-renascence-for-arnold-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/10\/21\/a-positive-renascence-for-arnold-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"A renascence for Arnold Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Burgass has given another paper on Arnold Bennett, &#8216;The House That Bennett Built: Material Culture in Clayhanger&#8217; in the swanky environs of Keele Hall (&#8216;Arnold Bennett and His Circle&#8217; conference, 18th October).\u00a0 Catherine discussed the function of furniture (chairs, shelves and domestic plumbing) in Bennett&#8217;s romantic realism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssbii.org.uk\/ssbii11\/images\/keele_hall_0791_mholland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catherine has been invited to contribute to a forthcoming volume of essays, edited by the distinguished Bennett scholar John Shapcott.\u00a0 She is also giving a talk next February for the Arnold Bennett Society on food in Bennett&#8217;s fiction: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=5\">http:\/\/www.arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Burgass has given another paper on Arnold Bennett, &#8216;The House That Bennett Built: Material Culture in Clayhanger&#8217; in the swanky environs of Keele Hall (&#8216;Arnold Bennett and His Circle&#8217; conference, 18th October).\u00a0 Catherine discussed the function of furniture (chairs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/10\/21\/a-positive-renascence-for-arnold-bennett\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3710,3626],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}