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The Urge to Purge

On Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 2.30 pm in the Gordon Wood Lounge (DT 1811), Dr. Noelle Gallagher will deliver a talk for CORAL, entitled “The Urge to Purge: Satire as Medicine in the Eighteenth Century.”  The rhetorics of illness and medicine in literature have been a sustained research interest for Dr. Gallagher.  Because Dr. Gallagher is a Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, this is an excellent opportunity to meet her in Canada, if you don't run into her at CSECS 2011. 

This is James Gillray's 1792 image of the Prince of Wales, 'A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion'; CORAL's refreshment tables are good, but not that good!