February 29, 2012
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Georgia Colloquium in 18th & 19th Century British Literature
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries
285
Sponsored by: English, Department of, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
Contact:
Chloe Wigston Smith
Assistant Professor
"Unheard Melodies: Silent Poetic Reading and Imagined Performance." J. Paul Hunter, an internationally renowned scholar, looks at works by William Shakepeare, Alexander Pope and Anne Finch, and considers what happens to the sounds of poetry in the transition from oral to print culture.
An internationally renowned scholar of the eighteenth century and the history of the novel, Hunter has published extensively on poetry and poetics, the couplet, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Alexander Pope. His book, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction, was awarded the Louis Gottschalk prize for best book of the year by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 1991.
This event is sponsored by the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, the English Department's Rodney Baine Lecture Fund, and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The lecture will be followed by a reception. It is free and open to the public.
For more information about the series, please visit http://www.cencl.uga.edu/.
Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature