Cities, War and the Individual in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries

Public talk by Dr. Kate Hext at 6pm on 20th November 2014 at the Cornish Studies Library, Redruth

Trains, planes, telegraphs, burgeoning cities, crowded streets, and insistent threats of war: these were the products of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-centuries and they fundamentally changed how people thought about their relationship with the world around them. This illustrated talk will incorporate some of the most important literary works and paintings from this period — from Oscar Wilde to Elizabeth Bowen  and from Walter Sickert to C.R.W. Nevinson — into the story of exactly how the relationship between people and the urban world changed in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and how this has altered the way we think about ourselves forever.

Book now by following this link: http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/cornish-window-individual-landscape-community-3/