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An Essay on the Principle of Population: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series Event

With Joyce E. Chaplin

Tuesday, October 8th at 4 p.m. ET

Join Joyce E. Chaplin (Harvard University) for a discussion of why Thomas Malthus's writings have endured as often taught and read works in classrooms around the world! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Chaplin.Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.

JOYCE E. CHAPLIN is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. She has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island and in a maritime studies program in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She is the author of An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1815 (1993), Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676 (2001), The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), and Benjamin Franklin’s Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity (2009).

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Moll Flanders: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series Event

With Albert J. Rivero

Tuesday, October 15th at 1 p.m. ET

Join Professor Albert J. Rivero for a discussion around Daniel Defoe's classic novel, Moll Flanders, and why he and his works have endured in classrooms over generations! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Rivero. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.

ALBERT J. RIVERO is Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English at Marquette University. He has published widely on the literature of the British long eighteenth century. His most recent publication is Daniel Defoe in Context (coedited with George Justice). He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Gulliver’s Travels.

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Norton Critical Editions Speakers Series: My Ántonia and O Pioneers!

With Sharon O'Brien

Monday, November 11th at 4 p.m. ET

Join Sharon O'Brien (Dickinson College), editor of My Ántonia and O Pioneers!, for a discussion of why Willa Cather's works have endured as often taught and read works in classrooms around the world! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor O'Brien. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.

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Persuasion: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series

With Rae Greiner

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Join Professor Rae Greiner for a discussion of why Jane Austen's Persuasion and other works have endured as often taught and read novels!

In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Rae.

Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.

RAE GREINER is associate professor of English at Indiana University. She is the author of Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and the forthcoming Stupidity after Enlightenment. She is also coeditor of Victorian Studies.

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