English Literature Research Seminar Series: Peter Boxall

In brief

Guest Speaker - Peter Boxall (Sussex University)

Title - Mere Being: Imagination at the End of the Mind

Chair - Andrew Taylor

About the speaker

Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex.

His research focuses on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in modernist and contemporary writing, and more recently on the longer history of the novel. His teaching interests reflect this, broadly covering literature and theory in the modern and contemporary period, and the history of the novel from the eighteenth century

His books include 'Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction' (Routledge, 2006), 'Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism' (Continuum, 2009), 'Twenty-First Century Fiction' (Cambridge, 2013), 'The Value of the Novel' (Cambridge, 2015), and 'The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life' (Cambridge, 2020).

He is also the editor of the journal Textual Practice.

How to join

Events are free, and everyone is welcome.

All seminars take place on Fridays between 16.00 and 17.00. Please contact the seminar chair to receive a Zoom invitation and password.

The chair for this seminar is Andrew Taylor.

Email Andrew for joining instructions

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