“'Necropolitics and Justice: the Administration and Representation of Death in Victorian Law and Literature”

The Centre for Art, Literature and Law (LUCAS, Leiden University) invites you for a workshop with Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa) on: “'Necropolitics and Justice: the Administration and Representation of Death in Victorian Law and Literature” December 10th, 13- 15:00 Professor Zigarovich is author of Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives (Palgrave, 2012), and she is editor of Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Routledge, 2019) as well as TransGothic in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2020). She is currently a fellow at NIAS. During the workshop she will discuss her current work on progress, entitled Necropolitics: Legislating the Dead Body and the Victorian Novel, which considers the posthumous life of characters uncannily bound by legislation in the Victorian novel. Where? Leiden University, Lipsius 1.54 When? December 10th, from 13.00 to 15.00.