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Living and Telling: Managing the Rhetorical Body in Harriet Martineau’s Life in the Sick-Room

Case Western Reserve University

  • Date Thursday, February 17, 2022
  • Time 4:30PM
  • Location Clark Hall, Room 206
    11130 Bellflower Road Cleveland, OH 44106
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Clark Hall Room 206,11130 Bellflower Road

Lecture will also be live streamed.

FREE and open to the public. Registration requested.

In her talk, Hayley Verdi, a PhD candidate in the Department of English, will consider how Harriet Martineau uses her lifelong struggle with chronic and often untreatable illness to create a narrative capable of instructing and guiding both the healthy and the ill reader. Managed and distanced, the ill body of the author is marshalled as another writerly device utilized to serve Martineau’s broader vision for how she and her readers might live alongside physical suffering and illness.

Living and Telling: Managing the Rhetorical Body in Harriet Martineau’s Life in the Sick-Room

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