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 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.
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[SOLD OUT] Reading Dracula with Edward G. Pettit | Virtual Course
January 23, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
February 6, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
February 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
March 6, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
March 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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 is just as much about themes of difference and otherness, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and gender, issues still relevant for contemporary readers.