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.
In this course, which welcomes first-time Melville readers and Moby-Dick obsessives alike, our discussions will range from the novel’s most thunderous, epic heights to its quirkiest, crudest jokes.
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.
Join yogi Liza Seltzer for this yoga workshop exploring themes from the popular Rumi poem, The Guest House.
We’ll consider how Dracula highlights the fears and anxieties of the culture that produced it and discover how this vampire story is just as much about themes of difference and otherness, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and gender, issues still relevant for contemporary readers.
During the four sessions of this course, we will read and discuss works by four prominent Harlem Renaissance writers and intelligentsia: Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Our class will examine Austen’s Northanger Abbey as a Gothic work and the knowledge this novel conceals beneath its sunny un-Gothic surface.
This immersive weekly course will help readers explore (and enjoy) the intricacies, enigmas and hilarities of Ulysses. First time readers of the novel will find many resources for understanding this challenging work. For those returning to the novel, this will be a great way to delve even deeper into a book whose depths never seem to end.
In this workshop, we’ll take a close look at letters from George Washington, John Adams, and Ulysses S. Grant in the Rosenbach’s collection and brainstorm ways to incorporate this material into your curriculum so that you can give your students a fact-based and unbiased view of American history.
In this class we will map a chronological route through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1826), from 1818 to today.