Dr. Norma Cantu will be making the next colloquium presentation. Her presentation is titled “Gathering Traditions: A Survey of Latina Traditional Arts in the KC Metro Area.” UMKC faculty and students are invited to attend. Her talk will be 4:00-5:00 PM on Thursday, November 20th, in 105A Cockefair Hall.
Event: Cynthia Jones Colloquium Presentation
Cynthia Jones will be making the first colloquium presentation for Fall 2014. She will be giving a talk on literary form in ancient Egyptian poetry. UMKC faculty and students are invited to attend. Her talk will be 4:00-5:00 PM on Wednesday, October 15th, in 105A Cockefair Hall.
Victorian Girls Gone Wild: Matrimonial Advertising and the Transformation of Courtship
The stacks and stacks of courtship advice books, etiquette guides, and love-letter writing manuals available to Victorian readers set forth a complex set of courtship rituals that were sanctioned by class-conscious parents who wanted their children to make marital matches that would improve the status of their families. These books generally pointed toward one recently…