Billy Budd: On touching and being touched

This guest lecture is co-hosted by McDonagh's History of the Novel course, the Nicholson Center, and the 18th & 19th Century Atlantic Worlds Workshop

Billy Budd: On touching and being touched

Santanu Das is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford author of India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

the response will be given by

Peter Coviello, University of Illinois, Chicago. Author of Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and The Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: New York University Press, 2013) and Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and the editor of Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories, by Herman Melville (New York: Penguin Classics, 2016).

image: Duncan Grant, detail from mural at Lincoln Cathedral