Please Note: The date of this session has changed from April 10 to April 17.
Works by novelists Edith Wharton, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, and Anzia Yezierska provide literary perspectives on the changes that swept America during the Gilded Age. Lisbeth Strimple Fuisz of Georgetown University leads a reading-group series that explores their varied depictions of characters whose personal dramas play out against rapidly shifting social, cultural, and economic backdrops.
Featured Subject
Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (1900)
A realistic and one-controversial novel of the intertwined stories of a young woman’s rise to fame as an actress and of a wealthy man’s fall from a life of comfort to living on the streets.
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