"Pride, Prejudice, and Portraits: The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen" by Claudia L. Johnson The 23rd Lewis Walpole Library Lecture will be delivered by Claudia L. Johnson, Murray Professor of English Literature, Princeton University, on Wednesday, April 4, beginning at 5:30 pm in the Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall.
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.
In connection with the Lecture, Professor Johnson will also lead the 18th/19th Century Colloquium for Yale graduate students on April 3.
Claudia L. Johnson specializes in 18th and early 19th-century literature, with a particular emphasis on the novel. Johnson is working on several book-length projects: an edition of Austen’s The Beautifull Cassandra with drawings by Leon Steinmetz, forthcoming Princeton University Press, 2018), 30 Great Myths About Jane Austen, with Clara Tuite, forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell in 2019; and Raising the Novel, which explores key phases the history of the history of the novel in which critics have attempted to elevate them to keystones of high culture.
