Frerichs Lecture by Andrew H. Miller -- "The Charms of Assumption"
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Nov 12, 2009 5:00 pm (Thursday)
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Location: Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street Calendar: Cogut Center for the Humanities Contact: Traude_Kastner@brown.edu - Traude Kastner Description: The Sarah Cutts Frerichs Le...
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Location:
Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street
Calendar:
Cogut Center for the Humanities
Contact:
Traude_Kastner@brown.edu - Traude Kastner
Description:
The Sarah Cutts Frerichs Lectureship in Victorian Studies
This lectureship fund, named for Sarah Cutts Frerichs AM49 PhD74, will support annual lectures on topics related to Victorian Studies the study of English culture of the Victorian period including, but not limited to, comparative literature, social and political history, and the histories of education, philosophy, fine arts, economics, law, and science.
Speaker Andrew Miller, Director of the Victorian Studies Program at Indiana University, will present a paper based on a larger project titled On Not Being Someone Else. It studies the distinctly modern moral psychology of counterfactual narratives in literature, taking as its point of departure Charles Dickens Great Expectations. In studying these counterfactuals, the paper raises questions about both aesthetic form and literary-critical method.
Prof. Miller is the author of The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading Nineteenth Century Literature (Cornell University Press 2008); Novels Behind Plate-Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 1995); and Sexualities in Victorian Britain, co-editor with James Eli Adams (Indiana University Press, 1996).
Pembroke Hall 305, 172 Meeting Street
Calendar:
Cogut Center for the Humanities
Contact:
Traude_Kastner@brown.edu - Traude Kastner
Description:
The Sarah Cutts Frerichs Lectureship in Victorian Studies
This lectureship fund, named for Sarah Cutts Frerichs AM49 PhD74, will support annual lectures on topics related to Victorian Studies the study of English culture of the Victorian period including, but not limited to, comparative literature, social and political history, and the histories of education, philosophy, fine arts, economics, law, and science.
Speaker Andrew Miller, Director of the Victorian Studies Program at Indiana University, will present a paper based on a larger project titled On Not Being Someone Else. It studies the distinctly modern moral psychology of counterfactual narratives in literature, taking as its point of departure Charles Dickens Great Expectations. In studying these counterfactuals, the paper raises questions about both aesthetic form and literary-critical method.
Prof. Miller is the author of The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading Nineteenth Century Literature (Cornell University Press 2008); Novels Behind Plate-Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 1995); and Sexualities in Victorian Britain, co-editor with James Eli Adams (Indiana University Press, 1996).
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