"The Burial of the Dead in Modern Fiction"
Pericles Lewis
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University

Wednesday, February 3, 4:00 p.m.
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 128 Wall St.
Light refreshments to follow

Pericles Lewis is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. His previous publications explore the development of modern literary forms in a period of political and social instability and include Modernism, Nationalism and the Novel (Cambridge, 2000) and The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism (Cambridge, 2007). His most recent book is Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, which is being published by Cambridge this month. He has degrees from McGill and Stanford Universities.