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Book Talk: Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville
Katie Chenoweth, French and Italian; Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Comparative Literature; Walter Johnston, Williams College; Peter Szendy, Brown University
April 25, 2019 · 6:00 pm · Labyrinth Books
Labyrinth Books, Humanities Council
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Handsomely Done presents readers with a Melville who is a philologist and even a cinematographer, but also a potent political thinker, a thinker of capital and credit as well as of resistance, insubordination, and escape. Please join us for a discussion with a panel of contributors to this important new volume.