Thursday, January 8 7:30 pm
McManus Room
Mark Schenker will present a talk on Edgar Allan Poe that places his life and works in the context of the American Gothic and 19th-century romanticism. The creator of one of the most popular literary forms, the detective story, and a master of another, the tale of psychological horror, Poe has a status with the reading public-both in an out of the classroom, with both children and adults-that is matched by no other American writer of his century with the possible exception of Mark Twain. And like Twain, Poe made a contribution to the American literary landscape with a public persona that remains as memorable as some of his fictional creations.
Event sponsored by Susan Tane.
