Invitation to Guest Lecture by Dr. habil. Gero Guttzeit (LMU Munich)

Monday, July 8, 4.15 p.m. Room US-A 120

The English Department cordially welcomes everybody to the following guest lecture:

Dr. habil. Gero Guttzeit, LMU Munich:

INVISIBLE BEINGS - Eighteenth-Century Literary Forms of the Self in Wheatley, Rowson, and Barbauld

Invisibility has long been a key motif in myth, religion, and literature, while today “not being seen” denotes a state of social marginalisation. This talk explores the cultural history of the invisible subject, tracing its modern origins in late eighteenth-century literature. Examining the invisible self in terms of gender, race, and religion, it discusses poems and prose by Phillis Wheatley, Susanna Rowson, and Anna Letitia Barbauld.

Monday, July 8
4.15 p.m.
Room US-A 120 (Campus Unteres Schloss)

Contact: Dr. Lukas Etter: etter@anglistik.uni-siegen.de