ONLINE! Mary Shelley's Plague Novel 'The Last Man': 1826 to 2020

Code: LH41005

Dates: October 29, 2020

Meets: 10:00 AM to 12 N

Sessions: 1

Course Fee: $49.00

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Best known for writing Frankenstein (1818), Mary Shelley also wrote The Last Man (1826) about the final survivor of a plague that she imagined sweeping the earth in the year 2073 (!). It is a fascinating account of a dwindling band of survivors searching for their fellow humans on a gloomy "Grand Tour" of Europe. The novel is eerily reminiscent of the year 2020 and the spread of Covid-19.
Fee: $49.00
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Roslyn Blyn LaDrew

Dr. Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew received her Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. in Celtic Languages and Literature at Harvard University, with study abroad in Ireland (Co. Donegal), Scotland (Stornoway, Isle of Lewis), and Wales (Aberystwyth). She was a columnist for the Irish Edition newspaper for about 25 years, until the paper's final issue. She currently teaches Irish (Gaeilge) at the University of Pennsylvania and also teaches Irish and Welsh online. She is also a musician, singing and playing the fiddle with the group Roz an' the Beaux.

roislindubh@gmail.com

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