EPHEMERA: Impermanent works in the literary and visual culture of the long eighteenth century March 13, 2009

How do scholars of the eighteenth century account for the ballads, broadsides, chapbooks, pamphlets, and news-sheets that flooded the streets of western cities, pinned up in taverns and on the walls of people’s homes? In this interdisciplinary conference, scholars are invited to a series of panel discussions examining 18th century ephemera from a literary, material, and curatorial vantage. Participants include keynote speakers Ruth Perry, Professor of Literature at MIT, and Adam Fox, Professor of History at the University of Glasgow, along with many others.
Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in Art History.

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