‘Compost Happens’
LCVS Annual Public Lecture 2017
Conference Suite at Leeds Trinity University
6 March 2017, 5.30-8.00pm
wine reception 5.30 – 6.30pm
lecture and discussion 6.30 – 8.00pm
Lecture by the 6th Visiting Professor of the Centre, Professor Herbert Tucker (University of Virginia)
This year’s public lecture showcases how preoccupied Victorian literature was with decomposition, breakdown and decay. Herbert Tucker will illuminate the underlying anxieties in works by Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy and others, revealing how all these writers used the image of decomposition as a way of talking about individual breakdown. He’ll be ‘talking rot’!
For further information and to book on to this free event, visit eventbrite through the Leeds Trinity website at www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/research/research-centres/seminar-programme or email lcvs@leedstrinity.ac.uk.