Middle Modernity Events 2011-2012

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Thursday, September 15th, 5pm

Reading Group Meeting

Mid-mod will meet at Porta Bella restaurant to discuss a selection from Professor Tanya Agathocleous's new book, Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination. This discussion will help prepare us for her September 20th visit. All are welcome. Please contact Jessie Reeder (jreeder@wisc.edu) to obtain a copy of the reading.

Tuesday, September 20th, 4pm, 7191 HCW hall

Talk: "Babus, Citizens, Counterpublics: World literature and World Citizenship in the English-language Press in India"

Professor Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter College, CUNY Tanya Agathocleous is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. Her book, Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination, appeared from Cambridge University Press in February 2011. Departing from customary understandings of realism, modernism, and the transition between them, to show how a range of writers throughout the nineteenth century-including William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad-explored the ethical, social and political implications of globalization. Agathocleous uses the lens of cosmopolitan realism-the literary techniques used to transform the city into an image of the world-to explain how texts that seem glaringly dissimilar actually emerged from the same historical concept, and in doing so presents startlingly new ways of thinking about the meaning and effect of cosmopolitanism. She recently co-edited a special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture on "Victorian Cosmopolitanisms" and an edition for Broadview of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

Archive of Past Mid-Mod Events