Commentary by Katie Trumpener

Click on the image of Une famille dans la désolation to hear commentary by Katie Trumpener.

Katie Trumpener is Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale. Her work on Romanticism includes Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire; The Cambridge Companion to Fiction of the Romantic Era (edited with Richard Maxwell); essays on Romantic children's literature; and Viewing Platform: Perspectives on the Panorama (forthcoming, edited with Timothy Barringer).

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Commentary by Katie Trumpener on Une famille dans la désolation (A Grief-Stricken Family) Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Une famille dans la désolation (A Grief-Stricken Family), 1821. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund and a gift in memory of James Sherman Pitkin. Click on the image above to hear commentary by Katie Trumpener.