Warner to Lecture on the “Evangelical Public Sphere”

I just received word of this lecture series. It might interest some of our readers in the Philadelphia area:

Rosenbach Lectures for 2009: Michael Warner, Yale University”

The Evangelical Public Sphere

Lecture Dates: March 23, 25, and 26, 2009
Time and location: 5:30PM, Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
More information: (215) 898-7088; jpollack@upenn.edu

Monday, March 23, 2009:”Printing and Preaching: What is a Sermon?”RSVP HERE

Wednesday, March 25, 2009: “Between Freethought and Evangelicalism: Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin”RSVP HERE

Thursday, March 26, 2009:”Evangelical Publics and Christian Nationalism in the Late Eighteenth Century”RSVP HERE

Michael Warner is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His recent publications include The Portable Walt Whitman (2003), Publics and Counterpublics (2002), The Trouble with Normal (1999), and American Sermons (1999).

I have not read some of Warner’ latest work, but I heartily recommend his The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).

While looking at Warner’s Yale website, I also came across an essay on his pentecostal childhood that might also be of interest to the readers of this blog.