Serial Reading Guide to The House of Mirth
This guide will help you read Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth in four sessions. The parts of the guide
Edith Wharton: Two Novels
This Newberry Seminar is now concluded. It was held in the spring of 2017. This seminar explores two of Edith
A Serial Reading of Our Mutual Friend
This Newberry Seminar is now concluded. It was held in the fall of 2016. Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens’s
The Art of Silent Film
This Newberry Library seminar is now concluded. It was held in the spring of 2016. This seminar invites you to
Literary Theory
“The Notorious Jumping Reader of Calaveras County: Twain, Blanchot, and a Dialectic of Storytelling.” The Midwest Quarterly 49.4 (2008): 374-87. “Drowning Martin Eden’s
China/Tibet Studies
Articles, Book Chapters, and Other Writings Newly Posted: Review: Ballad of the Himalayas, by Ma Yuan. Translated by Herbert J. Batt.