Hybrid: Treforest Campus and online

You are warmly invited to a talk by Dr Rebecca Hutcheon.
The talk is drawn from her monograph Writing Place (2018). Starting with the Reading Room at the British Museum and ending with Henry Ryecroft's writing place at his West Country cottage, this talk explores a selection of interior spaces, or the worlds-within-worlds, in Gissing's novels. 

Rebecca Hutcheon is a researcher whose work focuses on nineteenth-century prose, cultural geography and the digital humanities. Writing Place, the book on which this talk is based, is the first monograph to consider the works of George Gissing in light of the ‘spatial turn’ and asks: what are the risks of looking for the ‘real’ in Gissing’s places? Rebecca's current work, a co-written book titled New Approaches for Digital Literary Mapping: Chronotopic Cartography out later this year, asks what it means to create digital maps of and for literature. She is also working on an article exploring the ethics and economics of vegetarianism in late-Victorian realism. Alongside these printed outputs, she is also the co-creator of a cultural walking app, Romantic Bristol: Writing the City, a custom schema for coding literary texts and a co-director of the educational company Litcraft: Bringing the Text to Life. Rebecca is FBCI's Research Fellow for Impact at USW.