A 6-session course exploring the transformations of the Gothic in the nineteenth century. Following the origin of the Gothic with Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto in 1765 and the rise of Gothic icons Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis in the 1790s and early 1800s, the nineteenth century saw the Gothic turn towards monsters, supernatural transformations, and science.
The first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, “Swann’s Way” begins in a half-awake, half-dreaming state that leads our narrator to reflect on his childhood in Combray, culminating in the now-famous madeleine episode. This class will be a guided discussion: the teacher will offer questions and passages for focus but will allow the class to discuss the text at hand for the majority of our time together, giving participants the opportunity to share their thoughts, questions and reflections in conversation.
How Faulkner came to write this novel, why he chose a narrative method and style so unlike the work of writers like John Steinbeck and Erskine Caldwell, who created similar characters, will be the focus of this course.
Registration Tuition for this course is $250. 10% off for Rosenbach members and the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This course is limited to participants who are 18 years of age or older. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email [email protected]. Registration opens (more…)
Building on Women and the Making of Ulysses, the 2022 exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities (University of Texas at Austin), curator Clare Hutton joins us for this year’s Bloomsday lecture.
Registration Tuition for this course is $250. 10% off for Rosenbach members and the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This course is limited to participants who are 18 years of age or older. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email [email protected]. Registration opens (more…)
Join us for a monthly journey through Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was the first serialized novel written by Dickens and was published in 20 monthly parts (2-3 chapters per month) from March 1836-October 1837. Edward G. Pettit and a rotating set of Dickensian cohosts will talk about (more…)
The Rosenbach’s new Biblioventure series will focus on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. We’re taking a deep-dive into the adventures of the world’s first consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant, Dr. John Watson, as they battle the criminal forces of London.