Pembroke Reading Group
PAST EVENT | 25 October 2023 17:00 - 29 November 2023 18:15
On Wednesdays in Week 3, 5 and 7, from 5-6:15pm, join us in the Senior Common Room Parlour to discuss the week's book with the group and the author themselves!
You can have a flick through the book and read any specific chapters that interest you, or, if you have the time, give it a more in-depth read. No matter how much you've read, you're more than welcome to come along.
The books for this term are:
Week 3: Professor Ariel Ezrachi, Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants
Week 5: Professor James Read, Special Relativity
Week 7: Professor Ushashi Dasgupta, Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World
Open to all Pembroke members.
The book considered this week (W7) is Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Pembroke Professor Ushashi Dasgupta.
This book situates Charles Dickens within unusual historical and literary contexts to offer fresh perspectives on his work. Featuring close readings of critically neglected passages and minor characters in Dickens' fiction, and discussing Dickens' self-conscious reflections on the nature of authorship and narrative, the book aims to demonstrate the significance and ubiquity of a certain kind of space in the nineteenth century: 'rented space', which is constructed through unique types of social, economic and legal interaction.
Pembroke Reading Group
PAST EVENT | 25 October 2023 17:00 - 29 November 2023 18:15
On Wednesdays in Week 3, 5 and 7, from 5-6:15pm, join us in the Senior Common Room Parlour to discuss the week's book with the group and the author themselves!
You can have a flick through the book and read any specific chapters that interest you, or, if you have the time, give it a more in-depth read. No matter how much you've read, you're more than welcome to come along.
The books for this term are:
Week 3: Professor Ariel Ezrachi, Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants
Week 5: Professor James Read, Special Relativity
Week 7: Professor Ushashi Dasgupta, Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World
Open to all Pembroke members.
The book considered this week (W7) is Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Pembroke Professor Ushashi Dasgupta.
This book situates Charles Dickens within unusual historical and literary contexts to offer fresh perspectives on his work. Featuring close readings of critically neglected passages and minor characters in Dickens' fiction, and discussing Dickens' self-conscious reflections on the nature of authorship and narrative, the book aims to demonstrate the significance and ubiquity of a certain kind of space in the nineteenth century: 'rented space', which is constructed through unique types of social, economic and legal interaction.