演讲人：Dr Amelia Dale

时间：下午3:00-5:00

日期：2018年4月28日

地点：北京外国语大学英语学院115会议室

讲座摘要：

This talk asks what it means to read texts historically towards the end of “human” history, using Jane Austen’s work as an example. Once dismissed as having a nonrelation to history, Austen’s use of history has now become a dominant theme of Austen studies. At the same time as our contemporary understanding of Austen has become intertwined with historicity, anthropogenic climate change has demonstrated how “human” cultural history cannot be separated from ecological history, begging the question of Austen’s work in relation to cataclysmic ecological events, and longer, deeper temporalities. How is “deep” history registered within Austen’s work? Focusing on Sanditon, this talk will argue for an eco-historicist reading of Austen’s last novel.