Wednesday 31 May, 17:30–18:30 followed by a drinks reception in the IASH Seminar Room, Hope Park Square
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press 2023) by Dr Jolene Zigarovich
Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period’s rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices. Drawing on a variety of historical discourses—such as wills, undertaking histories, medical treatises and textbooks, anatomical studies, philosophical treatises, and religious tracts and sermons—the book contributes to a fuller understanding of the history of death in the Enlightenment and its narrative transformation. The book was kindly supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr Jolene Zigarovich is associate professor of English in the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa. She has also taught at Cornell University, Claremont Graduate University, and Scripps College. Jolene was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in 2021. She is the author of Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives, and editor of Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature as well as TransGothic in Literature and Culture.
Free registration at https://zigarovich.eventbrite.co.uk
Accessibility:
This event will take place at IASH, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW. Please see a map here: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/location
The Seminar Room is on the first floor, and unfortunately IASH does not have a lift. If you have mobility issues and would like to discuss access, please contact iash@ed.ac.uk as soon as possible.