Reading Groups

Modern Houses with Anne Fernald (Sold Out)

Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT March 21 to June 20, 2022

Online via Zoom

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This reading group has reached its capacity. To join the waitlist, please email Erich Slimak at [email protected].

Meeting Dates:
3/21, 4/25, 5/16, 6/20

Novels have long had houses at their core. Often, the house is a kind of symbol of the marriage: a happy ending means getting the beloved and the estate. In these four books from the early-to mid-twentieth century, we read novels with houses at their heart. These houses are more than mere setting or final prize; they rise to the status of a character.

Session I: Howards End by E. M. Forster (1910)
Session II: The Professor’s House by Willa Cather (1925)
Session III: The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen (1935)
Session IV: The Chateau by William Maxwell (1961)

Led by

Anne E. Fernald

Anne E. Fernald

Anne E. Fernald is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014) and author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006) as well as articles and reviews on Woolf and feminist modernism. An editor of The Norton Reader, a widely used anthology of essays, she teaches English and Women’s Studies at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus. She occasionally updates her blog, Fernham, and can be found on Twitter @fernham.

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