Please join us on Wednesday 27th April at 5:00pm to 7:00pm in Arts 103 for an exciting talk with Prof. Priti Joshi.
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Join us for an exciting talk in which Professor Priti Joshi will introduce us to her current project on illustrations and technologies for the mass-production of illustrations in the 19th-century press. The talk will focus on images of Nana Sahib, a leader of the 1857 Uprising in India and dubbed the “Butcher of Cawnpore” in the British media. Professor Joshi will discuss a number of illustrations of the man and the commercialization of his biography and image at the very moment when questions of representation were moving from a textual to a political register in India.
Priti Joshi’s primary area of research and teaching is nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with a secondary specialization in post-colonial literature and film. She has published articles on Anne Brontë, Frances Trollope, Edwin Chadwick, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens; on India in the 1851 Great Exhibition (in Museum History Journal); and on advertisements in periodicals (in Victorian Periodicals Review). She is the author of Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India (SUNY Press 2021), a single-authored monograph that examines 19th-century Indian newspapers and their response to crises. She is currently working on a projected book-length study entitled For Illustrative Purposes Only: From Lithography to Photography in Indian Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century.
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