George Eliot and the Religion of Favourable Chance

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• Professor Robert Koepp, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Illinois College
• Tuesday 26 May 2015, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Prof Jane Chapman.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

This talk examines how Eliot’s characters struggle with the profoundly human inclination to trust in luck by worshiping at the altar of ‘blessed Chance’- arguing that this tendency is central to the novelist’s treatment of various moral dilemmas in her fiction.

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Humanities Society talks series.

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