UWP Lecturers The Walpole Channel: All Walpole All the Time

[John Ganim]

University of California, Riverside Events




Horace Walpole on the Grand Tour



Professor George Haggerty




Thursday, November 12, 2009
   4–5:30 p.m.


Location: 
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Interdisciplinary Bldg South 1113
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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.

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.

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




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Open to: General Public
Admission: Free
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for Ideas & Society

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John M. Ganim
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
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Riverside CA 92521
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