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In this talk Stephen Alexander examines a classic of Gothic American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850.
Stephen Alexander
Writer and philosophical critic Stephen Alexander presents a provocative paper in this seminar-style evening. Those with a scholarly-literary bent will enjoy this evening from a literary agent-provocateur, whose essays never fail to shock. Tonight he examines a classic of Gothic American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850). Set in Puritan New England, it tells the tale of a young beautiful adulteress, Hester Prynne, and her illicit demon-child born of sinful passion. Alexander riffs on witchcraft, power and cruelty in a time when the maypole has been replaced by a whipping post, when men with black hats enforce God’s judgement with grim determination. Stephen Alexander is a London-based writer with a Ph.D. in Modern European Philosophy and Literature. He has given over thirty previous papers at Treadwell’s on topics including thanatology and object-oriented ontology.
Price: £7
Time: 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start.
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Dr Stephen Alexander | talks |
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Date and Time: |
4 July 2013 at 7:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Venue: |
Treadwell's Books |
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Tickets: |
£7 |
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Book places with payment by phone, 020 7419 8507. |
Additional Information: |
http://www.treadwells-london.com/events/ |
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