David Herman
What Are the Great Themes of the 19th-Century Novel?
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Summary
In this ambitious lecture we visit the great themes of the 19th-century novel: adultery (most famously, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter); the arrival of young heroes from the provinces to their country’s capital city (The Three Musketeers, Le Pere Goriot, Great Expectations); and adventures at sea (Moby Dick and other great sea stories by Melville, RL Stevenson, and Joseph Conrad).
David Herman
David Herman is a freelance writer based in London. Over the past 20 years he has written almost a thousand articles, essays, and reviews on Jewish history and literature for publications including the Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Quarterly, Jewish Renaissance, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Prospect. He has taught courses on Jewish culture for the London Jewish Cultural Centre and JW3. He is a regular contributor to Jewish Book Week, the Association of Jewish Refugees, and the Insiders/Outsiders Festival on the contribution of Jewish refugees to British culture.