Habits of Reading, Habits of Sympathy

Time: April 6, 2018, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Location: Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114 Bird Library

Melissa Shields Jenkins (Wake Forest University)

This public talk is part of a two-day workshopping event in which members of the Syracuse Department of English and the 19^th Century Studies Working Group of the Central New York Humanities Corridor come together to share ideas and new work within the disciplines.  Professor Shields Jenkins' presentation draws from a book manuscript about sympathy, race, and social class. She analyzes the proliferation of “recommended reading” book lists in the early twentieth century, discussing how the first gestures towards Victorian canon formation affect how we design syllabi, construct and arrange critical arguments, and interpret texts.

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