Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all.
Dr Jennifer Oliver's book, Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing: The Direful Spectacle (OUP, 2019), demonstrates the importance of shipwreck in narratives of sixteenth-century France, setting fictional and allegorical shipwrecks alongside the eyewitness accounts of travel writers in order to explore the relationship between the material and the metaphorical in this period of political crisis, colonial expansion, and poetic innovation.
