James Harriman-Smith

Category: France

  • 英語を話せます

    This blog post, a bit like the one I wrote about ideas for teaching, is another on the unexpected results of going on research leave. As well as time for rethinking my pedagogy, I also now have time to do some more language learning, and have decided to try and learn a bit of Japanese.…

  • Beinecke: The French

    This post concentrates on one element of the material I was looking through in the Beinecke library. Although not frequent, nor completely central to the current direction of my thesis, I couldn’t help but notice the odd reference to the French stage in both the William Smith and David Garrick papers. In the second folder…

  • Reynolds vs Fielding (avec version française)

    Over the course of his tenure as the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, Sir Joshua Reynolds gave a series of Discourses, one a year, on the occasion of the annual prizegiving in December. These speeches were not easy to compose for a number of reasons: first, as delivered by the president of…