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Brown University
The Department of English presents:
John Plotz
Associate Professor of English, Brandeis University
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Monday, October 23, 2006
5:00 pm
at The Department of English
70 Brown Street
Barker Presentation Room 315
"India's First Strawberries: Cultural Portability in Victorian Greater Britain"
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An Associate Professor of English Literature at Brandeis University, John Plotz is best known for The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) and a number of important articles on such topics as William Morris's romances, Victorian diamond narratives, Chartist literature, thing theory, and spectacle in Thomas Hardy. His talk comes from a book ms., Portable Properties: Problems of Cultural Transmission in Victorian Greater Britain, forthcoming in 2007.
Reception to follow
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture & Media.
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