Date / Time
- October 6, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
On this Behind the Bookcase tour, explore the creation of these immortal monsters by interacting with first editions and manuscripts born by the shores of Lake Geneva.
On this Behind the Bookcase tour, explore the creation of these immortal monsters by interacting with first editions and manuscripts born by the shores of Lake Geneva.
Join us on a new Biblioventure with two six-part series of haunted works of the nineteenth century: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
We are pleased to offer, for the first time, a Biblioventures companion program especially for high school educators.
As a literary genre, the Gothic is often associated with ominous castles, dark, stormy nights, and people fleeing from unnamed horrors. But the Gothic is—and always has been—much more complicated and interesting than this because it uses gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and the erotic to hint at the radical potential inherent in all of us. The Ladies of the House of Love book club reads historic and contemporary works of Gothic fiction. Each month, the club cozies up in the candle-lit,* historic West Library of the Rosenbach mansion, views objects from the collection, and discusses the Gothic’s connections to gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity.
Join the Rosenbach’s Director of Outreach & Engagement, Dr. Alexander Lawrence Ames, and fellow members on a literary voyage exploring the Rosenbach’s new, thought-provoking permanent exhibition gallery, Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: Literature of Great Britain & Ireland.
Enjoy cider and donuts before embarking on a behind-the-scenes look at Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: Literature of Great Britain & Ireland with exhibition curator Dr. Alexander Lawrence Ames, Director of Outreach & Engagement.
This course will explore the richness and depth of this remarkable text, with close consideration of the work’s language, action, characterization, worldview, and more.
Kermit Roosevelt explores the America the Founders designed, and the America that came to be, through documents and books in the Rosenbach’s American history collection.
Venture boldly into Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes as we explore what it took to create this (almost) inexorable villain.
To read James Joyce’s masterpiece together and have fun doing it, with freewheeling discussion, amusing and brief digressions, penetrating insights, mind-opening questions, and occasional singing.