Extra! Extra! Hot Off the Press!

Join the RSVP Digital Event team for a star-studded book launch of British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation, 1820-1845 (edited by Alexis Easley) on August 30!

Moderated by Alexis Easley, this 90-minute session will showcase the work of various participants in this new EUP volume, which takes up the emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century, a period of creative innovation in the popular press.

For more details, read the book’s abstract and table of contents.

Our speakers include: 

  • Alexis Easley, Chair and Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas
  • Brian Maidment, Emeritus Professor of the History of Print at Liverpool John Morres University
  • Linda Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University
  • Jennie Batchelor, Head and Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York
  • Caley Ehnes, Professor of Literature and Composition at the College of the Rockies
  • Helena Goodwyn, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Northumbria University
  • Sofia Prado Huggins, Project Manager for the Uproot Project
  • Françoise Baillet, Professor of British History and Culture, Caen Normandie University
  • Elizabeth Howard, Assistant Professor of English, Bethlehem College