What: Visiting Scholar Linda H. Peterson, Neil Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University, will give a lecture: From Originality to Iconicity: Poetic Genius from Tennyson to Swinburne.  This event, sponsored by the Trinity College English Department is free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be provided.

When: Thursday, October 29, 2009 ~ 4:30 p.m.  

Where: Reese Room, Smith House on the campus on Trinity College
300 Summit Street, Hartford, Conn. 06106

Background:
Linda Peterson is Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University. She is the author of Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self-Interpretation (1986), Victorian Women’s Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (1999), and Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship, Facts of the Victorian Market (2009). Her latest project, The Victorian Poetic Debut from Tennyson to Wilde, studies the first volumes of poetry as texts, as aesthetic objects, and as material productions for sale in the literary marketplace.

This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Sarah Bilston at 860/297-5264, or by email at Sarah.Bilston@trincoll.edu.

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