Smollett’s Lost Causes: Satire, Practical Jokes, and Eighteenth-Century Warfare

March 30, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall 40

Lynn Festa specializes in eighteenth-century literature and culture, with an emphasis on the role played by literature and literary form in the elaboration of categories of human difference in Britain, France and their colonies. Her latest book is Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture (Penn, 2019). Drawing on an array of literary, scientific, artistic, and philosophical devices— the riddle, the fable, the microscope, the novel, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting— Fiction Without Humanity focuses on experiments with the perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things.

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For more details please contact Peter Benson (pbenson@princeton.edu) and Diana Little (dplittle@princeton.edu)