Book history betwixt-and-between: Peter Pan in Cambridge University Library's Tower Collection

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Dr Sarah Pyke, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, Cambridge University Library
• Wednesday 29 May 2024, 17:30-18:30
• Milstein Room, Cambridge Universtiy Library, Cambridge CB3 9DR.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact researchdevelopment.

By 1911, when J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan first appeared in novel form as Peter and Wendy, it was already well-known. Barrie himself created several versions of Peter and his surrounding mythos, including the 1904 play on which the novel is based, while countless other adaptations and reworkings continue to be produced into the twenty-first century.

Examining holdings from the University Library’s Tower Collection, this talk will bring Peter Pan’s early paratexts into focus, from the ephemeral tie-in publications produced in parallel with Barrie’s own – including a colouring book and an ABC – to the illustrated dust-jackets and covers of the novel itself. Munby Fellow 2023-24, Dr Sarah Pyke, will trace Barrie’s most famous creation from page to stage and back again, showing how a book historical approach can help us to read Peter Pan as, above all, a text invested in its own materiality.

Book here: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/research-institute/events/fellows-talk-sarah-pyke

This talk is part of the Cambridge University Library Fellows' Talk Series series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• Milstein Room, Cambridge Universtiy Library, Cambridge CB3 9DR

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.