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SUMMARY:What's wrong with wrongdoing? - Professor Alison Sinclair\, Profes
 sor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the Universit
 y of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Paul Ireland
DESCRIPTION:The ongoing popularity of crime novels and crime drama on tele
 vision attests to our interest in the wrongdoings done by others. This lec
 ture looks at the dynamics of the reader (or viewer) and the cultures of w
 rongdoing. It does so not through contemporary examples but via popular li
 terature of the 19th century. Simple in form\, and directed towards a read
 ing public that in general lacked sophistication\, these popular texts all
 ow us to think about how we engage with victims\, perpetrators\, those who
  lament (or moan) and those who are braggarts. A central question is that 
 of why we take pleasure and interest in these texts. If we think along the
  lines\, ‘What’s in it for us?’\, is there anything ‘wrong’ in w
 hat might be in it for us?\nThe examples are drawn from Spanish and Englis
 h popular literature currently on display at the exhibition ‘Read all ab
 out it! Wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century’\
 , available on the "Cambridge University Library website":http://exhibitio
 ns.lib.cam.ac.uk/wrongdoing/.\n\nAlison Sinclair is Professor of Modern Sp
 anish Literature and Intellectual History in the Department of Spanish and
  Portuguese\, and Fellow of Clare College\, Cambridge. Her research and te
 aching range covers 19th-century and early 20th-century Peninsular literat
 ure\, culture and intellectual history.\n\n*Booking is essential as places
  are limited – "book online via the ICE website":http://www.ice.cam.ac.u
 k/madingleylectures/book*
LOCATION:Institute of Continuing Education\, Madingley Hall
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