Lecture on the drama of celebrity

Date of Event: April 4, 2011

Posted: March 25, 2011

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Sharon Marcus

A lecture titled “SALOME!! Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Drama of Celebrity,” will be presented at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 4, in the auditorium of Denison University’s Higley Hall (100 Ridge Road). The lecture, by Sharon Marcus, is free and open to the public.

Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of “Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England” and “Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London.”

The lecture is sponsored by the Laura C. Harris Symposium.


Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville — Lecture: “SALOME!! Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Drama of Celebrity,” at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 4, in the auditorium of Higley Hall (100 Ridge Road). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Beth Jeffries at 740-587-6297 or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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