主题：Jane Austens Relevance to US Today
时间：2018年10月22日（周一）晚上6：30
地点：理学楼报告厅
主讲：William Baker, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University
主讲人简介：
William Baker is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University. The author or co-author of over 150 refereed articles and thirty one books, his fifth and last book on Harold Pinter, Pinters World: Relationships, Obsessions, and Artistic Endeavors has just been published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Rowman & Littlefield. His A Critical Companion to Jane Austen was published in 2008. He co-edits YWES [Years Work in English Studies] English Association and Oxford University Press, and edits George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies [PennState UP].
内容简介：
The aim of my lecture today is to amplify some of the reasons why Jane Austen is so popular worldwide and why she should be read. I shall begin with a short account of her life stressing its relevance to us all. Then I shall refresh your memories or introduce you perhaps for the first time to some of the works, indicating their main concerns, and then examine why she is such a great writer.
