Event time:
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 5:30pm
Location:
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
1080 Chapel Street
New Haven , CT
06510
Event description:
Speaker: Claudia L. Johnson, Murray Professor of English Literature, Princeton University
Examining the controversial reception of the Rice Portrait of Jane Austen, by Ozias Humphry, this illustrated talk ponders the stakes of legitimacy in general as well as the unusual acrimony this portrait in particular has often inspired. Open to the public.