Literature Matters: Competing Visions of Ireland in the 1840 Painting A Blind Girl at a Holy Well
A public talk by STM English faculty member Kylee-Anne Hingston
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
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