Horace Walpole 1717-1797
Horace Walpole 1717-1797 |
"The Many Lives of Horace Walpole" Lecture by George E. Haggerty
October 26, 5:30 PM
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
1080 Chapel St., New Haven, CT 06510
In
his charming biography of Horace Walpole, R.W. Ketton-Cremer makes the
point that “one of the difficulties which confront a biographer of
Walpole is his remarkable versatility. He was active in many fields—in
politics, social life, literature, architecture, antiquarianism,
printing, virtù; and it is not easy to include them all in the compass
of a single volume.”
George E. Haggerty, Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department
of English, University of California, Riverside, who is currently
writing a new biography of Horace Walpole, will take up this challenge
in his lecture with and through Walpole’s letters. Haggerty asserts that
Walpole writes himself into his experience by means of his epistolary
imagination.
Professor
Haggerty’s talk will be streamed live from the Yale Center for British
Art at: https://britishart.yale.edu/multimedia-video/26/5796
"Queer Biography and the Archives" Roundtable with George E. Haggerty
October 27, 2:30 TO 4:45 PM
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511
Discussants
include Abby Coykendall, Jason Farr, Caroline Gonda, Paul Kelleher,
Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Susan Lanser, and Timothy Young.
Registration is required for the roundtable.
To
register, please click or tap here:
http://walpole.library.yale.edu/webform/queer-biography-and-archives-roundtable-george-haggerty
Castle of Otranto (1764) from 1794 German edition |
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