Zeidberg Lecture  The Materiality of Love: Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (later Browning) and Letter-Writing

Peter Stallybrass, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses on a single letter that Elizabeth Barrett Barrett wrote to Hugh Stuart Boyd, a scholar with whom she was passionately in love with long before she met her fellow poet and future husband, Robert Browning. Much can be learned by examining the letter’s details, says Stallybrass, including the conflicting emotions those details reveal. Free; reservations required.