Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all.
Register for your free place on Eventbrite here. If you would prefer not to use Eventbrite, please email torch@humanities.ox.ac.uk.
About the book:
Jennifer Oliver examines a range of literary works with strong intertextual links and focuses on materiality and embodied responses to shipwreck. She traces an increasingly strong theatrical aspect to shipwreck texts. Oliver features well-known texts by writers including Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne alongside the works of less familiar authors and Identifies a mini-genre of books popular in France in the early sixteenth century.
