One of the world’s leading scholars of the novel will present the 2008 Frederic Ives Carpenter Lecture
Franco Moretti, the Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and the founder of The Center for the Study of the Novel at Stanford University, has made groundbreaking contributions in the study of the 18th and 19th century novel, said Thomas Pavel, the Gordon J. Laird Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literature.
Moretti is widely-known for studying the development of the bildungsroman — the coming of age novel — in the 19th century. He is also one of the first literary scholars to use quantitative methods to examine the novel in the 19th and 20th century. Moretti has written Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World, Modern Epic, Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900, and Graphs, Maps, Trees.
He is the chief editor of the first two volumes of The Novel, a sweeping examination of the genre.
While at the University of Chicago this week, Moretti will give three lectures:
- On Monday, March 3, Moretti will give a lecture titled, “Theory of the Novel, History of the Novel.”
- On Wednesday, March 5, his lecture will be titled, “Bourgeoisie: On Henrik Ibsen.”
- On Friday, March 7, Moretti will give his final lecture, "Quantitative Data, Formal Analysis: Reflections on 7,000 Titles (British Novels, 1740–1850).”
All lectures will take place at 4:30 PM on the third floor of the University’s Swift Hall, 1025 E. 58th St.
Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact the English Department at (773) 702-8536.