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Annual Public Lecture
Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
Leeds Trinity University, West Yorkshire
May 19, 2014
Everyone is warmly invited to attend the
annual Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies public lecture, which will be on
Monday 19 May 2014 at 7pm in the Auditorium at Leeds Trinity
University, West Yorkshire. It will be delivered by our fourth visiting
professor, Regenia Gagnier (Professor of English at the University of Exeter)
on the topic “The Global Circulation of Victorian Actants and Ideas: in the
Niche of Nature, Culture and Technology”. The lecture will be preceded by a
wine reception at 6pm in the Conference Suite to celebrate the twentieth
anniversary of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies.
Professor Gagnier is a distinguished
scholar in the field of Victorian Studies and an outstanding critical thinker,
whose work has contributed substantially to our understanding of the modern
human condition. She has published numerous books on Victorian literature and
culture, including Idylls of the
Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford, 1986), Subjectivities: A History of
Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920 (Oxford,
1991), The Insatiability of Human
Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society (Chicago, 2000) and Individualism, Decadence and Globalization:
on the Relationship of Part to Whole 1859-1920 (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010).
For further information and to book on to
this free event, visit:https://lcvspubliclecture.eventbrite.co.uk or
emaillcvs@leedstrinity.ac.uk
