Book at Lunchtime: Born to Write

Speaker
Professor Neil Kenny, Professor Caroline Warman, Professor Ceri Sullivan
Event date
Event time
13:00 - 14:00
Venue
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities - Online Webinar
Online
Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

Join us for a TORCH Book at Lunchtime online webinar on Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France by Professor Neil Kenny.

About the book:

It is easy to forget how deeply embedded in social hierarchy was in the literature and learning that has come down to us from the early modern European world. From fiction to philosophy, from poetry to history, works of all kinds emerged from and through the social hierarchy that was a fundamental fact of everyday life. Paying attention to it changes how we might understand and interpret the works themselves, whether canonical and familiar or largely forgotten. But a second, related fact is much overlooked too: works also often emanated from families, not just from individuals.