Fixation and Submission in Pater’s Imaginary Portraits

the crystal palace

Date and Time

October 30, 2025
06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT

Location

Barker Center, Room 133

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

SPEAKER: S. Pearl Brilmyer, University of Pennsylvania

S. Pearl Brilmyer is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism (Chicago, 2022) as well as various articles on nineteenth-century literature, science, and philosophy.