Biblioventures: Monsters and Ghosts, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and A Christmas Carol

Date / Time

  • September 23, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • September 30, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 7, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 14, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 21, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • October 28, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:10 pm
  • November 11, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • November 18, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • November 25, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • December 2, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • December 9, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • December 16, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

  • This is a free program.  
  • Episodes stream live on Mondays, September 23 – December 16, 7:00-9:00 pm ET, with the recordings available to watch on the Rosenbach’s YouTube channel. 
  • Monsters & Ghosts Biblioventures: The Teacher’s Edition
    We know we’ve got a good number of teachers in our biblioventures audience so we have created a companion program especially for them. For more information and to register, please visit https://rosenbach.org/events/biblioventures-teachers-edition/  or reach out to Emilie Parker, the Rosenbach’s Director of Education at [email protected].

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Description 

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’s A Christmas Carol. First, we’ll investigate Stevenson’s gothic masterpiece about a gentleman doctor whose strange experiments to eradicate the evil impulses of all mankind lead to the creation of a brutal monster. Then, we’ll explore Dickens’s ghostly tale of a man haunted by not just spirits, but also his own past and future yet to come. Host Edward G. Pettit and a rotating group of cohosts (scroll down to meet our cohosts) will have a conversational annotation each week, providing context and insight about the authors and their characters, and showcasing remarkable Rosenbach collection objects along the way, including our first editions of both featured novels. Every week will also feature a signature cocktail, recipes shared a week before each episode.  

Schedule

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

complete text of Jekyll and Hyde

September 23 (cohost Paul M. Chapman)
Story of the Door                                                                              
Search for Mr. Hyde text for ep 1
September 30 (cohost Olivia Rutigliano)
Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease
The Carew Murder Case
Incident of the Letter text for ep 2  

A Chapter on Dreams, Scribner’s Magazine, Jan 1888

October 7 (cohost Paul M. Chapman)
Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon
Incident at the Window
The Last Night text for ep 3        Deacon Brodie, or the Double Life         Markheim  

October 14 (cohost (Olivia Rutigliano)
Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case (part 1) text for ep 4
October 21 (cohosts Paul M. Chapman and Olivia Rutigliano)
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case (part 2) text for ep 5
October 28 (cohost Leslie S. Klinger)
The Legacy of Jekyll and Hyde

November 4: no show

A Christmas Carol

Our first edition of A Christmas Carol has not yet been digitized, however you can find one at HathiTrust, digitized by McGill University.

pdf of first edition of A Christmas Carol

November 11
Stave I
November 18
Stave II
November 25
Stave III
December 2
Stave IV
December 9
Stave V
December 16
The Legacy of a Dickensian Christmas

Other Christmas pieces by Dickens

The Pickwick Papers serial number No. 10 (1836), just the Christmas chapters

Sketches by Boz: “A Christmas Dinner,” “The New Year” (1935-36)

“A Christmas Tree”, Christmas Number of Household Words 21 December 1850

You can read the entire 1850 Christmas Number here.

“What Christmas is, as we Grow Older”, Christmas Number of Household Words 1851

You can read the entire 1851 Christmas Number here.

A Christmas Tree and What Christmas is (just the text)

“The Signal-man”, published in the Christmas Number of All the Year Round 1866, as part of Mugby Junction, a series of railroad stories:

“Signal-Man” as originally published (note story starts on page two of document)

You can read the entire 1866 Christmas Number here.

“Signal-man” (just the text)

Hosted by Edward G. Pettit

Edward G. Pettit is the Sunstein Senior Manager of Public Programs for the Rosenbach and has been hosting their Biblioventures series since 2020. The series has covered Dracula, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, The Pickwick Papers, and Sherlock Holmes. Pettit has also led many courses for the Rosenbach on 19th Century literature. When not smoking, drinking, and talking about books during Biblioventures episodes, Pettit can be found at home in his third floor library smoking, drinking, and reading books.

 

 

 

Cohosts for Christmas Carol episodes

Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and its vertical CrimeReads. She was a Contributing Editor at the film magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, and has written essays for Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She, a specialist in the history of mass entertainment from the late 19th through the 20th centuries, has a PhD from the departments of English/Comparative Literature and Theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. Olivia was a cohost for the two Sherlock Mondays episodes on the Detectives of the Great Hiatus.

 

 

 

Maximilian P. Magee is an Aerospace Engineer turned Software Developer. He’s a reader and student of Sherlock Holmes as well as Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, and anything Sci-Fi. As a computer-scientist, Max has engaged in various enterprises to electronically analyze, dissect, and discuss literature in new and (sometimes) interesting ways. Max and his family love celebrating holiday traditions, making new ones and rediscovering forgotten ones. He’s a card-carrying Jelly of the Month Club member and he and his wife curate a Spotify Holiday playlist of some 314 unique songs that run to over 14 hours. Max was a cohost on the subscription only series Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles for the Rosenbach.

 

 

 

James Armstrong teaches at the City University of New York and is author of the new book Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas: British Tragedy on the Regency Stage. His adaptation of A Christmas Carol was recently produced by Passage Theatre Company in Trenton, NJ, and his play Dickens Condensed has been performed internationally from Staten Island to Japan. He is a member of the Dickens Fellowship, the Dickens Society, and the Dramatists Guild of America. James was a cohost on the Rosenbach’s Pickwick Monthly, a 20 month Biblioventure series covering Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers.

 

 

 

Cohosts for Jekyll and Hyde episodes

Paul M. Chapman has a long-standing fascination with the fog-shrouded world of the Victorian and Edwardian Gothic.  He is the author of Birth of a Legend: Count Dracula, Bram Stoker and Whitby – an in-depth study of the Yorkshire fishing port’s profound influence on Stoker’s masterpiece – and has written introductions to Dracula, and The House By the Churchyard and In a Glass Darkly by the enigmatic master of Victorian Irish Gothic, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – Stoker’s literary progenitor and a major source of inspiration for the haunted fiction of Montague Rhodes James. In 2018, Paul, together with Mark Jones and Teresa Dudley, co-organised the ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ M. R. James conference in York, which examined the great ghost story writer’s 1898 research trip to that ancient city and its Mediaeval churches.  Paul has written on James for the journal Ghosts & Scholars, in which he identified a significant and previously unnoticed real-life candidate for one of MRJ’s most memorable fictional creations, the diabolical Karswell in ‘Casting the Runes’. Paul is also known for his work on Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle, and co-hosts the Doings of Doyle podcast with Mark Jones BSI.  He has written widely on Holmes and Doyle for various publications, including Sherlock, The Musgrave Papers, ACD, Canadian Holmes, Steel True, Blade Straight and Wormwood.  Paul was a cohost on the subscription only series Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles. He is currently working on a book-length study of Conan Doyle and the Gothic.

Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and its vertical CrimeReads. She was a Contributing Editor at the film magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, and has written essays for Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She, a specialist in the history of mass entertainment from the late 19th through the 20th centuries, has a PhD from the departments of English/Comparative Literature and Theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. Olivia was a cohost for the two Sherlock Mondays episodes on the Detectives of the Great Hiatus.

 

Leslie S. Klinger is considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, H. P. Lovecraft, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, and the history of crime and horror fiction. Klinger is a long-time member of the Baker Street Irregulars, and served as the Series Editor for the Manuscript Series of The Baker Street Irregulars; he is currently the Series Editor for the BSI’s Biography Series. He served three terms as Chapter President of the SoCal Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and on its National Board. He also served for ten years as the Treasurer of the Horror Writers Association. He co-edited The Haunted Library, a series of eight horror classics published by the HWA, and is currently the editor of the 15-volume Library of Congress Crime Classics series, a partnership of the Library of Congress and Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. To date, he has edited more than 75 books, including Annotated Sandman and Watchmen Annotated for DC Entertainment as well as Annotated American Gods (with Neil Gaiman). He lectures frequently on Holmes, Dracula, Lovecraft, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, and the history of crime and horror fiction, including frequent panels at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Bouchercon, NecronomiCon, StokerCon, World Horror Convention, World Fantasy Convention, VampireCon, Comicpalooza, WonderCon, and San Diego Comic-Con, and he has taught several courses on Holmes and Dracula at UCLA Extension. Klinger’s most recent annotated edition is The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, published by the Mysterious Press in 2023.