“Modernist Worlds at War: Wells, Welles, Spielberg, and Anglo-American Paranoia”

Jed Esty is the author of Unseasonable Youth: Modernism,Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Oxford 2012) and A
Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England
(Princeton 2004), and is currently at work on a new project entitled
Ages of Innocence: Culture and Literature from Pax Britannica to
the American Century.

Jed Esty will be discussing his work-in-progress on
The War of the Worlds across media, from H.G. Wells to
Orson Welles to Steven Spielberg.

All welcome!
Reception to follow

hm 10/19/14