ECLS Research seminar
We run a series of seminars intended to provide a forum for discussion of literary research projects underway both within and outside of the department. The programme timetable and schedule changes annually.
Prof Marcie Frank, "The Melodramatic Actress"
Location: Humanities Building, H.058
The 'Melodramatic Actress' happens when the narratorr of a novel talks directly to a character. This talk tracks the appearance of this mode of addressfrom Inchbald's Nature and Art (1796) through to moments of elevated feeling in Dickens, Trollope and Hardy. is Professor of English at Concordia University. For more information, please contact Michael Meeuwis, m.meeuwis@warwick.ac.uk.