Sense and Sensibility og óreiðan í mannlegum samskiptum

Michael Kramp flytur fyrirlestur á vegum Bókmennta- og listfræðistofnunar Háskóla Íslands í Auðarsal í Veröld, fimmtudaginn 19. febrúar kl. 12:00-13:00. Fyrirlesturinn nefnist „Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the Mess of Human Relations; or, It Is Not Just What It Is.“

Um fyrirlesturinn 

The novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen begins with an origin story of the Dashwood family that often puzzles readers. Austen's novel primarily focuses on the stories of two sisters, but the larger narrative details how human relationships are rooted in messiness, and she shows us how this messiness is based in our lived realities. This is an origin story that at once frames the narrative with historical and situational contexts and helps us appreciate the messiness of relationships in Austen's first published novel. This talk is part of a larger project, Jane Austen and the Future of the Humanities. 

Um fyrirlesarann

Michael Kramp is a scholar of nineteenth-century British Literature, Critical Theory, and Masculinity Studies. He is currently engaged in a multiyear project, Jane Austen and the Future of the Humanities, designed to leverage Austen’s work to showcase the importance of the humanities to diverse public audiences; this project involves a podcast, a documentary film, and a public-facing monograph. He is the author of Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience (Routledge, 2024) and Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man (The Ohio State University Press, 2007) and editor of Jane Austen and Masculinity (Bucknell University Press, 2017) and Jane Austen and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2021).