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

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 13, 2025** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT 

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 **Barker Center, Room 133**  



 

 



 

## [VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE](/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.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Seminar ](/event-type/seminar)
- [ Victorian Literature and Culture ](/seminars/victorian-literature-and-culture)
 
 

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