Literature Matters: Competing Visions of Ireland in the 1840 Painting A Blind Girl at a Holy Well

Date: Wednesday, March 18
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Grace-Westminster United Church Social Hall, 505-10th St. E., Saskatoon

Free and open to the public

About this event

In a time when Ireland’s national identity was especially fraught, F. W. Burton’s 1840 watercolour A Blind Girl at a Holy Well was adopted by and adapted for competing visions of Ireland and what it meant to be Irish. In this presentation, STM faculty member Kylee-Anne Hingston shows how Victorian sentimentalism and flexible tropes about blindness allowed Irish (and English) writers and publishers to advance their particular conceptualizations of Irish national identity.

Literature Matters: Literature in the Community is a free public lecture series sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan Department of English.

Info: 306-966-1268 | english.department@usask.ca