BOOK DISCUSSION with Mark Schenker
Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
Join us for our next Book Discussion Series entitled Nineteenth-century American Literature. Yale Associate Dean Mark Schenker will lead discussions of the works of four major American authors of the 19th century. While the focus will be on the works themselves, we hope to engage a variety of cultural issues in nineteenth-century America: the emergence of a national literature; the burden of the past; the Puritan heritage and the influence of transcendentalism; individualism and the social compact; competing conceptions of the American self. Special attention will be given to the challenges and opportunities presented by the confluence of romanticism and realism.
To register or for more information: please call 203.389.3433, stop by our Circulation Desk, or email pvalsecchi@ci.woodbridge.ct.us.
