#  True Histories and Literary Celebrity: Charlotte Brontë and Josiah Henson 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 3, 2025** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT 

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 **Barker Center, Room 133**  



 

 



 

## [VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE](/victorian-literature-and-culture)

## SPEAKER: Sarah Allison, Loyola University

Sarah Allison is the Hutchinson Distinguished Professor and Director of Composition at Loyola University New Orleans and the author of *Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing* (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018). She specializes in large-scale textual analysis and the novels and criticism of nineteenth-century Britain. As a member of Stanford’s Literary Lab, she was a co-author of its first pamphlet, “Quantitative Formalism,” a study of style and genre, as well as “Style at the Scale of the Sentence,” and “Canon, Archive and Literary History,” all since reprinted in the volume *Canon/Archive: Studies in Quantitative Formalism* (n+1 books, 2017). Her work has appeared in *ELH*, *Genre*, *Victorian Literature and Culture*, *Victorian Poetry*, *Journal of Cultural Analytics*, *Public Books*, and *Avidly*.

Allison's second book, *Portraits of the Author with Pen in Hand: Transatlantic Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century*, is under contract with Columbia University Press. It draws on interlocking computational approaches - book history, digital archives, and algorithmic criticism - to create a study of "portraits of authors" that centers the many players who worked to produce the figure of the Transatlantic celebrity author.



 

 



 

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