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Arnold Bennett Conference
John Shapcott, Honorary Research Fellow, RI Humanities, and Professor David Amigoni, English, gave papers at the Annual Arnold Bennett Conference, organised by the Arnold Bennett Society, last weekend.
Extending Bennett's reputation as the novelist of 'The Five Towns', the event, at the North Staffordshire Conference Centre, Hartshill, focused on the author's extensive fictional and non-fictional writings about London and other European capital cities associated with the literary movement of Modernism.
The conference also celebrated the formal launch of John Shapcott's new Churnet Valley edition of Bennett's Modernist masterwork, Riceyman Steps, published exactly ninety years ago in 1923.
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