Language Change and Social Class in the Novel

Recorded December 11, 2018. A public lecture by visiting Trinity
Long Room Hub fellow Professor Barry McCrea (Notre Dame) on
Language Change and Social Class in the Novel. The lecture will
compare the ways minor languages and socio-economic class interact
as narrative elements in a variety of European authors, including
Joyce, Proust, Edna O'Brien, Flann O'Brien, Ó Cadhain, Dickens,
Ferrante About Barry McCrea Barry McCrea is a novelist and scholar
of modern European, Latin American, and Irish literature. He most
recent book is Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the
Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe (Yale
University Press, 2015), which won the American Comparative
Literature Association’s René Wellek prize for the best book of
2016. He is the author of The First Verse, a novel, winner of a
number of awards including the 2006 Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction
and a Barnes and Noble "Discover" prize, and of In the Company of
Strangers: Narrative and Family in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce and
Proust (Columbia University Press, 2011), which won the Yale Heyman
Prize for scholarship in the humanities.Professor McCrea holds has
a BA in Romance languages from Trinity College Dublin, and a PhD in
comparative literature from Princeton. Before joining Notre Dame,
he taught comparative literature at Yale University, where he was
appointed full professor in 2012. Professor McCrea teaches fall
semesters in the Rome and Dublin Global Gateways and spring
semesters on campus. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/