Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and the Gothic Novel
A presentation by KU Professor Ann Rowland
October 10 – 2-4 pm
Plaza Library, Large Meeting Room,
4801 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64112
The major focus of Ann’s early research and scholarship was on childhood and Romantic literary culture. Her first book, Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture analyzed how new ideas of childhood enabled new conceptions of history and literary culture. Ann is the winner of the College Career Advancement/Research Enhancement Semester Award from KU, 2024; the Ned Fleming Trust Award for Excellence in Teaching from KU, 2023, as well as the National Humanities Center Fellowship, 2019-2020.
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to learn about the influence of the Gothic in Jane Austen’s early writings as well as her later literary development.
Refreshments will be served