Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition | 1941 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 2 | i: Six Nonlectures | 1953 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 3 | Sincerity and Authenticity | 1972 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 4 | The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance | 1973 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 5 | Six Walks in the Fictional Woods | 1994 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 6 | The Romantic Generation | 1995 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 7 | Lessons of the Masters | 2003 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 8 | Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye | 2006 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
| 9 | The Origin of Others | 2016 | Toni Morrison | Buy |
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures have been delivered at Harvard University since 1925, with published volumes going back to 1941. The nine books in this collection represent some of the most prominent thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each delivering six lectures on a topic in the arts.
The series covers a huge range of fields: Sigfried Giedion on architecture, E.E. Cummings on poetry, Lionel Trilling on sincerity, Umberto Eco on fiction, and Toni Morrison on the construction of the racial Other. Morrison’s The Origin of Others (2016) uses her Norton Lectures to examine how literature creates outsiders and what that tells us about the cultures producing it.