Alan Bewell, University of Toronto

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University

Friday, November 14, 2008, 5:00 pm EST

Time: 10:15 a.m.

Place: 211 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University

Commentator: William Howarth, Princeton University


Copies of the paper are available by contacting Jennifer Houle at jhoule@princeton.edu one week before the date of the seminar.


Alan Bewell, Professor of English at the University of Toronto, is interested in the relationship between literature, medicine, and science, particularly within the context of British colonialism. His ongoing work involves literary representation of disease, and he is currently writing a book on Romanticism and natural history.

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The microscope (1867)

These confection-like illustrations are actual representations of objects viewed under a polariscope, spotted in the title The microscope (1867) by Jabez Hogg. According to the text, “This plate is especially intended to illustrate the beautiful and gorgeous spectacle produced by polarized light on the various objects here grouped together. Image courtesy of Yale University.