The American Antiquarian Society's Annual Wiggins Lecture in the
History of the Book in American Culture: Wednesday, November 14, 5:30 pm.
Richard Brodhead will present "Prophets, Publics, and Publication: A
History of the Book from One Cultural Margin," the Nineteenth Annual Wiggins
Lecture at the American Antiquarian Society, on Wednesday, November 14,
2001. Richard Brodhead is A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English,
Professor of American Studies, and Dean of Yale College. His books include
Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century
America (1993); Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel (1976); Faulkner, New
Perspectives (1983); The School of Hawthorne (1986); New Essays on Moby-Dick
(1986), and The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt (1993).
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be given at
5:30 p.m. in Antiquarian Hall. It will be followed by a reception and
dinner, for which advance reservations are required. For more information,
check the American Antiquarian Society's website:
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/wiggins.htm.