On April 28, the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario invited Audrey Jaffe to present at their 45th annual Spring Conference at York University. The TRB is pleased to present the podcast of her talk, entitled “Walk this Way: Adam Bede and the Production of Realist Space.” Listen and enjoy!

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Audrey Jaffe is a faculty member at the University of Toronto English Department. She is the author of three books: Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (1991); Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (2000), and The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (2010).