Spectacles of Decline reads and engages with a work-in-progress paper by Jed Esty (Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania). Maud Ellmann (Interim Chair, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, University of Chicago) responds. ​

This event is co-sponsored by the 20th and 21st Century Cultures Workshop at the University of Chicago.