Past Events
This two-day conference will bring together literary critics, historians, and musicologists to reconsider the coherence of the historical period from the execution of Charles I in 1649 to the…
One of the leading scholars of the English novel, Professor Michael McKeon (Rutgers), will speak about the genre of the novel as it relates to wide-ranging cultural and historical contexts…
Professor McKeon is the author of The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), which won a…
Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels ENCHANTMENTS, ENVY, THE SEAL WIFE, THE BINDING CHAIR, POISON, EXPOSURE, and THICKER THAN WATER.
Franklin is best known, of course, as a printer (of many things, including books), but we've discovered that his life as a printer was enmeshed in a broader world of correspondence.…