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VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
SPEAKER: Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College
Join us for a discussion of the Introduction and Coda to Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper. This book examines Charles Dickens's fictions alongside publications emanating from Parliament. It argues that Dickens and Parliament were engaged in competitive efforts to represent the People at a crucial moment in the history of representative democracy--when the British government was under enormous political pressure to expand the franchise beyond a narrow band of male landowners.
About the Speaker
Carolyn Vellenga Berman is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She is the author of Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery and, most recently, of Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People (OUP, 2022).
Please click the file below to access the Introduction and Coda.
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