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The Center for the Humanities proudly presents:

Style, inc. Reflections on 7,000 novelistic titles [Great Britain, 1740-1850]

Franco Moretti

Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University
Brittingham Scholar in Residence

October 22, 2008 @ 7:30 pm

Pyle Center

The talk describes some macroscopic changes in title structure between 1740 and 1850; suggests how they may have changed the way readers looked at novels; and makes a modest attempt at a stylistics of the genre system.


In addition, please join Franco Moretti for a conversation with faculty and students at the Institute for Research in the Humanities on Monday, October 20, 12-1:30

Submitted by Deb Cutler on October 15, 2008

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