First Lecture for Graduate Students

Topic:Scientific Experiment As a Model for the Literary Aesthetic in England,1660-1800”（科学实验作为英国文学美学的典范，1660-1800）

Time:9:50-11:30, Oct. 20, 2015

Venue:Room 207, School of Foreign Languages Building

Second Lecture for All

Topic:The Paradox of the Novel Tradition（小说传统的悖论）

Time:13:30-15:30

Venue:Lecture Hall 108, School of Foreign Languages Building

Speaker：Prof. Michael McKeon

Michael McKeon, Expert on early novel and theory of the novel, Professor II and Board of Governors Professor of Literature at Rutgers University, has written three books on topics in interdisciplinary British Studies:Politics and Poetry in Restoration England(Harvard, 1975),The Origins of the English Novel(Hopkins, 1987) (which won the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize for best book of the year), andThe Secret History of Domesticity(Hopkins, 2005). McKeon also has edited the anthologyTheory of the Novel: A Historical Approach(Hopkins, 2000). He has served on two Executive Committees of the MLA and on the Supervising Committee of the English Institute.

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