Course | Reading Dracula with John Edgar Browning | Virtual
In this course, we’ll consider how Dracula highlights the fears and anxieties of the culture that produced it and discover how this vampire story, and its themes of otherness, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and gender, is still relevant for contemporary readers.
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[SOLD OUT] The Rosenbach Presents | The Vampyre Tea: Afternoon Tea and Opera Performance with Opera on Tap Philadelphia | In Person
Don your black capes and fly to the Rosenbach for a vampiric afternoon the week before Halloween!
Behind the Bookcase | Vampire Fiction: Carmilla to Dracula | In-Person
In this Behind the Bookcase hands-on tour, follow the thread from Carmilla to Dracula through rare editions, Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes for Dracula (including character and chapter outlines and chronologies), and related vampiric holdings such as the 1870 volume Vikram and the Vampire.
Behind the Bookcase Tour | Written in My Heart: James Joyce and Irish Authors | In-Person
In this program we’ll explore a wide array of holdings, including Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes for his gothic classic Dracula, correspondence from the iconic and incomparable Oscar Wilde, and one of our most famous holdings, Joyce’s manuscript of his Modernist masterpiece Ulysses.
Behind the Bookcase Tour | Dracula: The Enduring Monster | In-Person
Venture boldly into Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes for Dracula (character and chapter outlines, chronologies, and more!) and, with Rosenbach staff, explore what it took to create this (almost) inexorable villain.
[SOLD OUT] Behind the Bookcase Tour | Dracula: The Enduring Monster | In-Person
Venture boldly into Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes for Dracula (character and chapter outlines, chronologies, and more!) and, with Rosenbach staff, explore what it took to create this (almost) inexorable villain.
Course | DracYoga | In-Person
Grab your mat (and maybe your fangs and cape, too?) and join us for a candlelit, Dracula-inspired yoga practice! We’ll have some fun linking imagery and themes from this Gothic horror classic to a gentle flow yoga sequence.
Following the practice, participants will have the opportunity to explore the Rosenbach’s vampire-related collection items during a special, private after-hours viewing of Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: Literature of Great Britain & Ireland, where selections from the Rosenbach’s renowned Dracula and vampire collections are on view. Please bring your own yoga mat. Costumes encouraged!
Course | Book Arts: Letters from a Vampyre | In-Person
Dracula is one of the most renowned epistolary novels of all time. The thrilling, chilling, and above all creeping dread invoked by Bram Stoker’s vampire builds within the everyday diary entries, newspaper clippings, and letters of our protagonists.
Create your own suspense-filled letter in this two-part class.