Ian Duncan and Audrey Jaffe on Dickens

Ian Duncan and Audrey Jaffe on Dickens, March 15th, Rosenbach Museum

The Greater Philadelphia Nineteenth-Century Forum (P19) is extraordinarily pleased to announce our Spring Lectures:

Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley): “A vast glass, vibrating”: Dickens’s Human Forms

and

Audrey Jaffe (University of Toronto): How I Met Your Mother, and other Lucky Accidents: Revisiting the Victorian Family Romance

Professor Duncan and Professor Jaffe’s consecutive thirty-minute talks will be followed by a conversation between them and a moderated question and answer session.

The talks will take place on March 15th, 2012 at 5:30 pm at the Rosenbach Museum, located at 2008 Delancey St in Center City Philadelphia.

Please RSVP to rsvp@rosenbach.org

These lectures are made possible by funding provided by a Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford College Mellon Foundation grant, by the Center for the Humanities at Temple University, and by the Rosenbach Museum.

Professor Duncan is holds the Florence Green Bixby chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (Cambridge, 1992) and of Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton, 2007) in addition to numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently a Vice-President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a member of the editorial board of Representations, and a General Editor of the Collected Works of James Hogg.

Professor Jaffe is the author of The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Ohio, 2010); Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Cornell, 2000); and Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (University of California, 1991). She has recently published essays in Novel, Victorian Studies, the Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Victorian Investments collection (Indiana, 2008) and recently guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory on “Realism in Retrospect.”