Please join the 18th and 19th Century Colloquium for our final event of the semester – a presentation by Yale’s own Catherine DeRose (DHLab Manager, Yale University Library) – on Thursday, December 13, at 4 p.m. in LC 319. Dr. DeRose will be delivering a paper titled “Media Matters: From Manuscripts to Print in George Eliot’s Romola.” Her paper abstract is appended below. Ben Pokross will provide a response, to be followed by a general discussion and light refreshments.
We hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Micah Siegel and Marcus Alaimo
Co-conveners, 18th and 19th Century Colloquium
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Abstract: ”Media Matters: From Manuscripts to Print in George Eliot’s Romola”
Questions of material form have intensified in the digital era. In what contexts can an electronic copy serve as a substitute for its print predecessor? What information is lost when a text’s form changes? How should our approaches to reading change in response? Although pressing and pertinent, these questions are not new. Victorian writers asked and answered similar questions, and they did so in ways that can be helpful for framing the stakes of media transformations today. For a case study, this talk will take up George Eliot’s Romola, tracking the novel’s attention to the materiality of texts and the changing channels by which they are created, circulated, and preserved.