“A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in: narrating the Victorian ego”

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

SPEAKER: Ben Parker, Brown University

B.A., Columbia (2005); Ph.D., Columbia (2013). Professor Parker specializes in the history and theory of the novel, particularly the Victorian era. He has written for English Literary History, Modern Language Quarterly, New Literary History, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, Film Quarterly, n + 1, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Artforum.com, and The Paris Review. His first book, Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel was published in 2024 by Cornell University Press.