#  "Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper": Book Discussion with Carolyn Vellenga Berman 

 



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 **October 13, 2022** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Barker Center, Room 110 (Thompson Room)**  



 

 



 

##  [VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE](/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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