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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, November 13, 2024 5:00 pm to 7
 :00 pm \n Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library \n 120 St George Street, Toront
 o, ON, M5S 1A5 \n\nSpeakers \nProfessor Tom Keymer \n\nDescription: \nJo
 in us for this year's A\nual Jackman Lecture in the Humanities with Tom Ke
 ymer, Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman University Professor of English. The 
 A\nual Jackman Lecture in the Humanities was inaugurated in 2022-23 on the
  fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Jackman Humanities Institute
  as a way to express our lasting gratitude for the support of the Honourab
 le Henry N.R. Jackman for research in the humanities. This annual lecture 
 features a leading humanist at the University of Toronto.Ecocritical schol
 arship on 19th-century literature has explored the impact on Victorian wri
 ters of the new geological and palaeontological science and the dizzying a
 pprehension of deep time that came with it: the fluid hills and primeval d
 ragons of Tennyson’s In Memoriam (1850); the startling elephantine lizard
  of Dickens’s Bleak House (1852-3); the grim, haggard cliff of Hardy’s A
  Pair of Blue Eyes (1872-3), where “the immense lapses of time each forma
 tion represented had known nothing of the dignity of man.” Writing a gener
 ation or two earlier, Jane Austen might seem a less promising candidate f
 or this kind of analysis. Her contemporaries, however, were already grow
 ing alarmed by what a pioneering geologist of 1805 called “the abyss of ti
 me,” and in the next decade the fossil-hunting excavations of Mary A\ning
  and others on the Dorset coast, notably A\ning’s sensational ichthyosaur
  discovery of 1811, were attracting widespread attention. Austen made at 
 least three extended visits to Lyme Regis during this period, met A\ning’
 s father and probably A\ning herself, and writes, in the pivotal Lyme ch
 apters of her last completed novel Persuasion (1817), a sublime evocation
  of coastal erosion unlike anything else in her fiction. What happens when
  we read Austen's work in this unfolding context, with its interest in hu
 man phenomena—cold-bloodedness and predation; the unstable stratification
  of rank or class; social and dynastic survival or extinction—for which g
 eology and palaeontology were beginning to offer new metaphors?Tickets are
  free, but we do ask that you register. \n120 St George Street, Toronto\
 , ON, M5S 1A5 \n\nCategories \n Lecture Series \n\nAudiences \n Community
 FacultyGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:120 St George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A5
SUMMARY:The Annual Jackman Lecture in the Humanities: Jane Austen and the J
 urassic
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 humanities-jane-austen-and-jurassic
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