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<h1><b>University of California, Riverside Events<br><br>
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</b></h1><h2><b>Horace Walpole on the Grand Tour<br><br>
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Professor George Haggerty<br><br>
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</b></h2><h3><b>Thursday, November 12, 2009<br>
4–5:30 p.m.<br><br>
</b></h3>Location:
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Description: <br><br>
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), son of the great Whig Prime Minister Sir
Robert Walpole, traveled to Italy with his friend Thomas Gray in 1739 and
did not return to England until 1741. During his travels he wrote
several letters to friends at home, and these comprise one of the most
entertaining accounts of Englishmen on the continent in the
eighteenth century. Professor Haggerty will talk about these
letters and place them in the context of Walpole's forty-eight volumes of
Correspondence.<br><br>
George E. Haggerty is Professor of English at the University of
California, Riverside. His recent work includes Music
and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays of Philip Brett, edited
(California, 2006); Queer Gothic (Illinois, 2006); and The Blackwell
Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies,
edited with Molly McGarry (Blackwell, 2007). At present he is
completing a study of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence: Horace Walpole’s
Letters: Masculinity and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century. Most
recently he chaired a committee to revise general education
requirements. He has been the recipient of University of California
Presidential Fellowship in the Humanities and the ASECS/Lewis Walpole
Library Fellowship to study at the Yale collection in
Farmington.<br><br>
This event is sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society as part of
the Research Calling Series. This event is free and open to the
public. For further information regarding this or any event
sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society, please contact us at
951~UCR~IDEA or visit our website at ideasandsociety.ucr.edu<br><br>
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Open to: General Public<br>
Admission: Free<br>
Sponsor:
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Center for Ideas & Society</a><br><br>
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John M. Ganim<br>
Professor of English<br>
Department of English<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
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Riverside CA 92521<br>
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