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Lewis Walpole Library Lecture : The many lives of Horace Walpole
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Title
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture : The many lives of Horace Walpole / George E. Haggerty.
Production
New Haven, CT : Yale Center for British Art, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 streaming video file (58 minutes ))
Notes
Lewis Walpole Lecture series held at the Yale Center for British Art on Thursday, October 26, 2017.
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Summary
"George E. Haggerty, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of English, University of California, Riverside. In his charming biography of Horace Walpole, R. W. Ketton Cremer makes the point that 'one of the difficulties which confront a biographer of Walpole is his remarkable versatility. He was active in many fields -- in politics, social life, literature, architecture, antiquarianism, printing, virtú; and it is not easy to include them all in the compass of a single volume.' George Haggerty, who is currently writing a new biography of Horace Walpole, takes up this challenge in his lecture with and through Walpole's letters. Haggerty asserts that Walpole writes himself into his experience by means of his epistolary imagination"--Website
Variant and related titles
Many lives of Horace Walpole
Format
Online / Software & Electronic Media
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 04, 2020
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Mode of access: Internet.
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Yale Center for British Art.
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