Samuel Johnson Society Dinner with Harvard Professor James Engell
The Samuel Johnson Society of the West invites Harvard Club members to their thirty-first Annual Dinner Meeting featuring James Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Sunday, November 23rd @ 6:00pm
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Salon, Fifth Floor, The Los Angeles Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Social activities: 6.00 p.m.
Dinner: 7.00 p.m.
Socializing and dining in the spirit of the eighteenth century, after which:
James Engell
Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
will deliver the twenty-first annual Daniel G. Blum Lecture
“Johnson, Honestly: His Anatomy of the Lie”
Professor Engell is the editor of Johnson and His Age and is a member of the editorial committee of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. His extensive publications on the long eighteenth century include The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism and Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge.
Period harp music will be provided by Mr. Jerry Ripley.
Please RSVP to yeager@chapman.edu no later than Wednesday, November 19th.
Cost: $65 per person
Contact/RSVP: Myron Yeager, yeager@chapman.edu